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My parents grew up in China. My father is a mathematician who studied Marx, AI, and functional analysis at night after chopping trees all day in Manchuria during the Cultural Revolution. My mother was a computer programmer. Both my parents were raised as outcasts, my father by his grandmother and my mother by her aunt. They decided to marry after three weeks of courtship, during which my mother caught fish from a river and cooked them for my father, and my father taught my mother calculus. With my mother and father, Hongmei Park, Changzhou, China, 1977 I was born in Changzhou and emigrated to the U.S. with my parents in 1980. I grew up in College Park, Maryland, where both my parents were graduate students. My parents were too poor to afford childcare while they were both busy studying. One of my fondest memories is of summers in which every morning, they would drop me off at the library, and I would spend the whole day by myself reading. My favorite genre was biographies. There was no

Trusting a map in her own head As told by Doris Tsao My parents grew up in China. My father is a mathematician who studied Marx, AI, and functional analysis at night after chopping trees all day in Manchuria during the Cultural Revolution. My mother was a computer programmer. Both my parents were raised as outcasts, my father by his grandmother and my mother by her aunt. They decided to marry after three weeks of courtship, during which my mother caught fish from a river and cooked them for my father, and my father taught my mother calculus. With my mother and father, Hongmei Park, Changzhou,

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