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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Riillo, Maria (February 11, 2021). "The PEN Ten: An Interview with Te-Ping Chen".
- ↑ Chen, Te-Ping (March 7, 2019). "'China Could Have Been a Very Different Country.' A Search for Family Reveals a Lost Moment". WSJ– via www.wsj.com.
- ↑ "A Journalist's Eye Enlivens 'Land Of Big Numbers'". NPR.org. Retrieved July 29, 2021.
- ↑ Kranc, Lauren (July 9, 2021). "Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Is, Yet Again, Unsurprisingly Strong". Esquire. Retrieved July 29, 2021.
