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Taiwan
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  • Lexington, France, Taiwan—it didn't matter to Norah, who felt she had already discovered another country with Frederic.†   (source)
  • Which might as well be Red Taiwan, for all the good it does her.†   (source)
  • A label on the white lining read, 50% SATIN, 50% POLYESTER, PRODUCT OF TAIWAN.†   (source)
  • And it turned out Carlo was in solid-state electronics, traveled to Hong Kong and Taiwan on business and had once flown to Mexico City to see a soccer game.†   (source)
  • Rumors spread that the couple were spies and had secretly escaped to Taiwan.†   (source)
  • In the fall of 1944 the Joint Chiefs of Staff had rejected General MacArthur's plan to attack Japan via Taiwan and China.†   (source)
  • Even in places like Kazakhstan and Taiwan, kids were getting mad, getting determined.†   (source)
  • CHRIS HUNTINGTON has worked in France and Taiwan and has taught English in the Sahara and Gabon for the Peace Corps.†   (source)
  • Vast new container ships known as PNXs, too large to transit the Panama Canal, now ply the Pacific between China, Taiwan, and South Korea and Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; and Vancouver, British Columbia.†   (source)
  • Here are these people who called him "freak" and never paid attention to him, except to make fun of him or spread rumors about him, and now they are carrying on like professional mourners, the ones you can hire in Taiwan or the Middle East to sing, cry, and crawl on the ground.†   (source)
  • Then China will be ruled by a Nationalist zealot whose ideological roots are in Taiwan.'†   (source)
  • Then Hungary, Taiwan, China, divorce, this.†   (source)
  • She came as an exchange student from Taiwan and must have wondered what she'd gotten herself into joining a family of bearded men who hunted for a living.†   (source)
  • Crates from Canton, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan have that smell too, only stronger because they are more recently come from the Chinese.†   (source)
  • Koreans, Filipinos, people from Hong Kong and Taiwan, South Africans, Italians, Greeks, South Americans, Argentines, Colombians, Venezuelans, Bolivians, a lot of black people who've cleaned out places you've never heard of, Chinese from everywhere.†   (source)
  • The answer shouldn't surprise you: Singapore, South Korea, China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, and Japan.†   (source)
  • My mother and father emigrated from Taiwan to New York City to raise a family.†   (source)
  • I was sent over here to trace down and analyse a rumour out of Taiwan.†   (source)
  • When you start shopping out the bikes over there in Taiwan, I saw it coming.†   (source)
  • We took Rebecca as our translator and toured Taiwan.†   (source)
  • Peking would pull out of the Accords, blaming Taiwan and the West for messing around.†   (source)
  • Rebecca has been back to Taiwan a couple of times to visit her family there.†   (source)
  • The story was first picked up in Taiwan.†   (source)
  • China's most deeply committed enemies — their own brothers from the Kuomintang on Taiwan.†   (source)
  • Did he also get calls from Chinese-speaking telemarketers trying to sign him up for long-distance calling plans for Hong Kong and Taiwan?†   (source)
  • "Lootie give me so much trouble," LuLing dictated, as if Ruth were invisible, "maybe I send her go Taiwan, school for bad children.†   (source)
  • " "Well, I only thought you said 'Taiwan' because it sounds the same," I argued, irritated that she was upset by such an unintentional mistake.†   (source)
  • She also persuaded a spy sent by the Nationalists in Taiwan to confess—without even beating him, although she said she was perfectly willing to beat those who did not confess.†   (source)
  • Taiwan is not China.†   (source)
  • But the fact that Taiwan and Hong Kong rank so highly suggests that the mainland would probably also do really well.†   (source)
  • Someone dies, the wife of an American soldier, a former Japanese officer, an archaeologist in Taiwan or Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Made in Taiwan.†   (source)
  • Cultural legacies matter, and once we've seen the * On international comparison tests, students from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all score roughly the same in math, around the ninety-eighth percentile.†   (source)
  • Ruth revised that to: "Perhaps Ruth might attend a finishing school in Taiwan where she can learn the manners and customs of a young lady.†   (source)
  • I described the restaurant owner from Taiwan as one of our class enemies, with her strong perfume smell, her thick makeup and her plastic smile.†   (source)
  • I was already on to Taiwan and China.†   (source)
  • We were even told once, by one of the political heads, that a brave and faithful young Red Guard loved Chairman Mao so much that he informed the police that his parents had Taiwan connections.†   (source)
  • She had learned some English in school in Taiwan, but with our Southern accents, Rebecca just could not understand us.†   (source)
  • In those early trips to Taiwan, to Japan, to China and Hungary, Ruby came along, and she was wonderful.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to be in Taiwan, did I?†   (source)
  • She was the youngest of four in her family in Taiwan, but when she joined our home, she became the oldest.†   (source)
  • A megabomb that can blow the whole Far East apart, and will if saner heads in Taiwan don't isolate and rip out those lunatic clients of yours.†   (source)
  • After Duck Commander signed a licensing deal with Weaver, which makes rifle and shotgun optical scopes, I wanted to tour their manufacturing center in Taiwan.†   (source)
  • That Alan had been management, had helped scout a new, non-union location for Schwinn, had met with suppliers in China and Taiwan, had contributed not insignificantly — Ron's words — to all that undid Schwinn and the 1,200 workers employed there, well, it made communication difficult.†   (source)
  • In a few minutes of introductions, of assessing where their paths might have crossed, they covered a handful of consulting firms, the plastics business in Taiwan, the fall of Andersen Consulting, the rise of Accenture.†   (source)
  • Chinese from Taiwan who said outright that they oppose most of the leaders of the secret societies in the Kuomintang.†   (source)
  • I simply determine the information to be totally false and dangerously inflammatory, compiled by your enemies in Taiwan.†   (source)
  • He could return to the hotel now; the assistant manager would be miles away, conceivably booking a flight to Taiwan, if there was any truth at all in his hysterical statements.†   (source)
  • Where better could it be found than in the wild acreages of idyllic government bird sanctuaries, official parks controlled by powerful moles from the Kuomintang in Taiwan.†   (source)
  • I was sent over here to track down a story originating in Taiwan, a story so detrimental to all our interests that a hint of its contents could start a chain of events that terrifies everyone.†   (source)
  • 'It began over thirty years ago when a brilliant young man was sent from Taiwan back to the land of his father's birth and given a new name, a new family.†   (source)
  • The route Jason chose, flying at low altitude through the Formosa Strait — past Longhai and Shantou on the Chinese coast, and Hsinchu and Fengshan on Taiwan — was something over 1435 miles.†   (source)
  • 'I saw what I saw and heard what I heard and it'll all be with me for a long time … You don't need me, you never did] Isolate them, spread the word in the Central Committee, call in Taiwan to disown them — they will!†   (source)
  • Taiwan?†   (source)
  • I've never been to Hong Kong or Taiwan.†   (source)
  • Taiwan?†   (source)
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