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How I came to publish my first book, America's first anorexia memoir, at age 24
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Behind the Elation Over Asian-American Oscars
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Yellowface in the Family
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Being There for the Death of Sun Yatsen
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Memoir, Autofiction, and What Lies Between
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Letters of Consolation and Estrangement
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Culture Shock Can Wake Up Your Fiction
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Why Don’t More Writers Know How to Navigate?
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The Chinese-Swedish Sister I Replaced
Why my father couldn't let her go
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NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL
A conversation with Katie Gee Salisbury
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Being There for the Death of Sun Yatsen
Time traveling to the chaos of China, 1924
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When you began in a different world than the one you’re supposed to call home
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