Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Well, I’d like to go somewhere where they speak Chinese because I don’t spend enough time living in Chinese. When I was in Taipei this past summer and living in it for most hours during the day, I felt that pathways were being unlocked in my brain, and my ability to read and interpret texts was improving by huge margins. But I’ve already lived in Taipei, so I can’t say that. I might just go on a backpacking trip for six months across all of the cities and villages in Taiwan that I haven’t been to. I’ve only been to Taipei. I haven’t been to Tainan or Kaohsiung or any of the other major regions. It’s a bit of a cheaty answer, but these are very new places for me, so that’s what I would want to do, and also something that is a realistic journey for me in the near future. The rest of the country is very different, very different from Taipei, I think, at least the parts I’ve been to. Anyway, Rebecca, thank you very much. Her new book — loved it — Yellowface, out this year. And she tells us, over time, there will be at least three more books coming, I’m sure many more. Thank you. Thank you so much.…

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