Oakland author uses observations from China for debut collection 'Land of Big Numbers'
Jessica Zack January 30, 2021Updated: February 1, 2021, 5:29 pm Author Te-Ping Chen was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing. Photo: Lucas Foglia Te-Ping Chen says that when she moved to Beijing in 2014 to work as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, it was helpful as both a journalist and a fiction writer that she felt like such an outsider. Even though she speaks Mandarin and grew up in an Oakland family proud of her Chinese heritage, the country struck Chen firsthand as “utterly surreal, like a place where you’re always on the precipice of...
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