Thus I Came

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: black;>This book is a revised and expanded version of </span><em style=color: black;>Thus I Came - short stories that I have been privileged to relate </em><span style=color: black;>(2018).</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: red;>A</span><span style=color: black;>: Recall some joyful wits rendered by my pre-kindergartener kids and grandkids (pp. 2 - 23). </span><span style=color: red;>B</span><span style=color: black;>: My mother strived to raise four kids as an illiterate farm laborer during my father's five-year imprisonment for alleged subversion of Government. Unforeseen happenstances that somehow catapulted me from the verge of quitting school to college on a path dotted with financial and legal hiccups and eventually ended up as a professor in an American university (pp. 24 - 85). </span><span style=color: red;>C</span><span style=color: black;>: My brief military service in Taiwan taught one naïve college graduate to become a better and matured person (pp. 86 - 110).</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: red;>D</span><span style=color: black;>: My ancestors struggled for survival over 200 years in the frontier interior of Taiwan marked with official corruptions and brutality as well as banditry ethnic conflicts family feud and heinous lawlessness. It also narrates my father's journey to hell post-prison rehabilitation and business bankruptcy (p. 111 - 231). </span><span style=color: red;>E</span><span style=color: black;>: I explore the good among us and expose the ugly for shining the good (pp. 232 - 296). </span><span style=color: red;>F</span><span style=color: black;>: What could be done better? It briefs my achievements and failures along my career path (pp. 297 - 336).</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: black;><span class=ql-cursor></span></span></p><p><br></p>