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My journeys to Toishan, the place of my birth in China, provide the narratives of experience in this chapter. Toishan is the earth where my roots flourished, ground me, and call for my return, first in 1979 after almost 25 years in the United States.
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Eng, B.C. (2021). A Sojourner in a Village Landscape: The Earth That Seeds. 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_4
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