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JOHN STENGEL Special to the Olean Times Herald

July 21, 2016

RTW: A different perspective about a different culture

I read Madison Carlson’s recent commentary about Hong Kong and Singapore. From 1968-73 I visited Hong Kong three times and spent four months at university in Singapore studying Mandarin Chinese.

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