Taipei, Taiwan (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"When you talked to Skip you got the idea that in Hong Kong, Taipei, even, they worked seventeen‐hour days, then stayed up all night and danced."

"One of the few American stories that had made its way to the silver screen of Taipei in the ’50s, an afternoon at the cinema with her father and nine sisters and brothers, sharing one Coke."

"“So far so good, except it was Taipei, not Osaka, history, not accounting, and I was dean’s list all four years, and to be honest, I’m not sure what my dream is yet—it might be grad school—so I don’t think I’ll be crushed if, as you put it, it doesn’t pan out for me.”"