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“Aiyaah! Juk sing, juk sing!” my mother cried out in despair. Juk sing, a “hollow bamboo,” is how I was often criticized by my mother as I grew up Chinese in America. Like a bamboo, my outside appearance suggested Chinese or Asian features and origins. And, like a bamboo, my mother thought me empty and hollow inside, devoid of the honored traditional Chinese values and beliefs.
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Eng, B.C. (2021). Introduction: A Hollow Bamboo. In: Personal Narratives of Teacher Knowledge. Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82032-9_1
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