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Charlie, Mary, and the Chow family
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In fact, as Lynn Pan suggests, it only stands to reason that affiliation with the Nationalist struggle would have sustained and strengthened their identification with China: "Revolution as a means of national salvation was a theme to which the overseas Chinese responded with ardour, and the Kuomintang was to enjoy their allegiance until well into our own times. One day to be called the ‘Mother of Revolution,' the overseas Chinese had evolved their nationalism the quick way, by being aliens in a foreign country."