It is this curious entanglement that ties a complicated, layered and inconsistent knot between the "Native China" and the "Overseas China".

这种奇特的纠葛，使得“本土中国”与“海外中国”之间充满复杂、多义且莫衷一是的连结。

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Family ties that can be a liability in his native China gave Guan an unusually quirky view of life.

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Ms. Ding, 23 years old, attended college in her native China but spent time at University of California, Berkeley, and wanted more Western experience.

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Ha Jin, who left his native China in 1985 to study at Brandeis University and then remained in the U.S., tells this tale in an impeccably deadpan manner.

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