Blog by Dr. Isabelle Cheng, Senior Lecturer in East Asian and International Development Studies, University of Portsmouth ‘Where are you now? I’m on my way!’ My eyes were searching for a figure in plain T-shirt and baggy trousers, so I was not sure, until she waved at me, if the woman appearing in a fitting dress and high heels was indeed Hồ Minh Mai. I had lost count of our meetings since our first, in 2009, at Minh Mai’s second-hand bookshop in this narrow alley in southern Taiwan. I could not tell, either, how many times I visited Ngô Xuân Phuong
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