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Jordyn Haime

Why Chinese students are an increasingly rare sight in Taiwan

Jamie Wang is one of a dwindling number of Chinese students in Taiwan [Jordyn Haime/Al Jazeera]

Taipei, Taiwan — It is Jamie Wang’s headline show at Taipei’s Two Three Comedy and the audience loves her. She has been doing standup sets at shows and open-mic nights here for a year.

Tonight, she is wearing a pink minidress with knee-high white boots, her eyeshadow glittering under the spotlight. She gives a dry delivery of sex jokes — and anecdotes about what it is like to be a Chinese citizen in Taiwan.

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