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Will Words Fail Her? Immigration Officials Snub Literary Sensation Yiyun Li Despite Her Peers' Praise By Bob Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 21, 2005; Page C01 Five years ago, Yiyun Li had a problem: How do you persuade the literary world to take you seriously when you're a 28-year-old native Chinese speaker trying to write in English, you've published exactly nothing and your training consists of a single adult-education class? Since then, the Beijing-born Li's career