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Diary of a Reverse Immigrant

Karissa Chen

Missives from my life as a Taiwanese Chinese American living in Taiwan.

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For Connor.

Connor and I, in Belize, spring break 2009.

Today’s post is unrelated to anything Taiwan, or writing, really, but I don’t have anywhere else to put this, so into this Substack it goes.

In the fall of 2008, I quit my job and moved acro...

17 days ago
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Why I Want My Child to Learn Taiwanese Even Though I Don't Speak It

So, despite having lived in Taiwan now for 10+ years, I don’t understand Taiwanese. I have some basics that I’ve picked up (“thank you,” “time to eat,” “I don’t understand,” “yes,” “tired”), some food and other miscellaneous words and phras...

3 months ago
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Chinese Dramas can be AMAZING; Pursuit of Jade is NOT it.

Note: I wrote this a couple of weeks ago, but then Taiwan Travelogue won the International Booker and I posted a post about that instead. So this has just been languishing in my drafts since then. I’m too lazy to go in and change the refere...

5 months ago
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Taiwan Travelogue wins the International Booker Prize!

I had a whole post queued up (about Pursuit of Jade and Cdramas) but then I woke up this morning to the news that Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King has won the International Booker Prize, and now that post will...

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How are there this many coffee shops in Taipei?

When I first lived in Taipei, I lived in the Yongkang St. / Dongmen area. As a writer, one of the first things I did was look for the coffee shops. Well, I didn’t have to look far because just in the short 5 block radius of my apartment the...

7 months ago
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    Karissa Chen is the author of the novel HOMESEEKING, a Good Morning America Book Club pick and Book of the Month pick. She currently resides in New Taipei City, Taiwan.

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