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Te-Ping Chen
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Wall Street Journal reporter, debut short story collection LAND OF BIG NUMBERS @marinerbooks out now: bit.ly/3lL9s96
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    Te-Ping Chen
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    Jul 9, 2021
    my husband just walked in and told me the news. what even??? so deeply honored & thankful to see Land of Big Numbers on @BarackObama's list of favorite summer reads:
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    Barack Obama
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    Jul 9, 2021
    While we were still in the White House, I began sharing my summer favorites—and now, it’s become a little tradition that I look forward to sharing with you all. So here's this year's offering. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
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    Apr 13, 2017
    How the news Trump won't label China a currency manipulator plays here: "Eating his words!" "Trump slaps self in face, again"
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    Te-Ping Chen
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    Apr 2, 2018
    1/ I wanted to share a story about something kind of wonderful that happened yesterday. Backstory: I grew up in Oakland, Calif., not knowing really anything about my mother's family -- she was an only child (born in NYC) & my grandparents died before I was born.
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    Te-Ping Chen
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    Apr 6, 2020
    “She said, 'Mommy, I’m going to work because no one else is going to help the senior citizens get their groceries.” RIP Leilani Jordan, a 27-year-old Giant worker who passed away of the coronavirus last week wapo.st/2JLLN73
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    Te-Ping Chen
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    Aug 14, 2018
    Big fan of this young guy on the Beijing subway, whose T-shirt front reads “I love money” in large English letters. Then, in discreet print on the back: 更爱自由. (“I love freedom more.”)
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    Te-Ping Chen
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    Jun 12, 2019
    No one stands up like Hong Kong stands up. The smartest, most resourceful teenagers you could ever hope to meet. 佩服.
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    Nathan VanderKlippe
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    Jun 12, 2019
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    Te-Ping Chen
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    Jun 17, 2017
    Delighted to see China's traditional pastime of napping at IKEA still going strong
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    Sep 14, 2017
    It's actually 25%. Also, companies here pay more when all business taxes factored in: 68% vs. 44% in the U.S. on.wsj.com/2pE0OgC
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    Donald J. Trump
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    Sep 14, 2017
    China has a business tax rate of 15%. We should do everything possible to match them in order to win with our economy. Jobs and wages!
    Trump’s Plan to Slash Business Levies Has China Worried About a Tax War
    Trump’s Plan to Slash Business Levies Has China Worried About a Tax War
    From wsj.com
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    Te-Ping Chen
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    Jan 28, 2021
    What does it mean to love a culture, & take pride in it, but not the government that serves as its most prominent booster? on.wsj.com/2YpUM5a A personal essay from me in this weekend's @wsj:
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    Mar 17, 2020
    So glad someone wrote this piece. Masks can save lives, & the strident anti-mask tone in the U.S — especially when cases spread asymptomatically — is deeply unhelpful. nyti.ms/2vrTjAy
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    Te-Ping Chen
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    Apr 2, 2018
    Replying to @tepingchen
    8/ As it turns out, my great-grandfather Liang Chiu-shui was one of China's earliest newspapermen, a journalist w/the English-language 北京导报, or Peking Leader. He wrote poems including 冀东兄弟行, about brothers on opposite sides of the civil war who meet on the battlefield.
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    Te-Ping Chen
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    Jul 20, 2021
    “I guess it took them awhile to get back to me.” Companies struggling to hire are finally getting back to applicants they ghosted years ago. Our a-hed on mystery calls from the Cheesecake Factory & how job ads are the new spam:
    Now Hiring: White Castle—Four Years After You Applied
    Now Hiring: White Castle—Four Years After You Applied
    From wsj.com
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    Te-Ping Chen
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    Mar 7, 2019
    1/ Last year, I found some long-forgotten family letters stashed in a trunk in my parents' garage. They were postmarked 57 Shih-Chia Hutong, Peking. I spent my last months in Beijing trying to trace their authors. What I found is in this weekend’s @WSJ: on.wsj.com/2SOZR1Y
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    Te-Ping Chen
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    Apr 2, 2018
    Replying to @tepingchen
    11/ PS: the letters mention two books of my great-grandfather's poetry were being safeguarded by neighbors for family in America, one by "Miss Tsui's No. 2 Sister" and a "Miss Yu." Not surprisingly, so far no luck trying to track them down, but am continuing to ask around...