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王一男

“Once you come to the U.S., there’s no turning back.”
— Zhou Guoqin, former owner of Yen Ching Restaurant

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“你已经来了美国了，就没有回头路了。”
— 周国钦，燕京饭店老板口述

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This work draws from an oral history interview with Zhou Guoqin, former owner of Yen Ching Restaurant in Milwaukee. Reassembled from fragments of printed text, the sentence shifts from speech into image, reflecting migration as both a decision and a condition—one that reshapes the possibility of return.