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Getting Better Acquainted

When visiting the Forbidden City, also known as the Palace Museum in Beijing, Tsai Shang Lin, a postgraduate student from Fu Jen Catholic University, a private university in New Taipei, a municipality in north Taiwan, China, was excited to pose for pictures against the ancient architectural backdrop. It is, after all, the largest and best-preserved ancient wooden palace complex in the world that housed China’s imperial palace from the 15th century to the early 20th century. “I’ve read about it in Taiwan’s textbooks and history books, and today, I finally got to see the real deal,” Tsai, also a culture and history lover, told Beijing Review.

Cheng Huan Yu and Hsiao Nai Wen, two undergraduate students from the same university, echoed

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