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(Here is Chapter 1 of the book, in draft form, about teacher Xu. He is a bit younger than my father. When the Cultural Revolution was started in 1966, they both participated: my father as a college student, he as a middle-schooler. To condense the fo...

(Here is Chapter 2 of the book, in draft form, about teacher Xu. His career path was unconventional, just as mine was, as described in my recent book “Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math Teacher”. He has never learned math in school since 6th gra...