Chialin Yu, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/chialinyu/ Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:31:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Why do we categorize things? https://booksbywomen.org/boxing-writers-in-chialin-yu/ https://booksbywomen.org/boxing-writers-in-chialin-yu/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:00:43 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11787 Go into any bookstore and you’ll always see books neatly stacked and displayed under different categorizations—romance, sci-fi, horror, travel, Chinese, English—categorizations so arbitrary and authoritative as if romances don’t happen in 3013 and travelers never accidentally step into a brave new world. Growing up, I hated those imposed classifications, probably because back then I was […]

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