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About Jane Rickards
Jane Rickards is a Taipei-based freelancer who previously was a TOPICS staff writer. A former Acting President of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club, she has covered news in Australia, Taiwan and China and her work has also appeared in The Economist, the Washington Post and the Financial Times.
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Fortunetelling: Many Ways to Learn Your Destiny

Jane Rickards/2010-05-102022-10-25

STORY AND PHOTOS BY JANE RICKARDS Fortuntellers in Taiwan use such methods as numeric calculations based on one’s name, date of birth, or grains of rice; face or palm reading – or even birds playing pick-up sticks. On a dustry sidewalk near an old Taoist temple in suburban Banqiao, a man sites behind a red-clothed…

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