![]() ![]() Wen’s father is a Chinese-Indonesian, her mother a Chinese-Filipina. ![]() The fabulous experience was to put down roots in her creative mind. Still a senior high school student when she became a Presidential Scholar, Wen decided to go for it. She remained unaware of the Taiwanese study tour until the organizer contacted ethnic Chinese US Presidential Scholars to offer them free places. Wen rarely came across children who looked like her. Unlike California, Ohio didn’t have many ethnic Chinese immigrants. The six-week program is known to have fostered romantic relationships between many young people, hence its nickname “Love Boat.”Ībigail Hing Wen, the author of Loveboat, Taipei, grew up in Ohio. In the 1960s, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission of the Republic of China (now the Overseas Community Affairs Council) began to organize a summer program for ethnic Chinese youngsters abroad, encouraging them to come to Taiwan and immerse themselves in Chinese culture and the Chinese language, as well as experiencing local ways of life in different places around the island. ![]()
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