- English Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my mother in Shanghai.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got older, I realised that people saw me as other things - sometimes Korean, sometimes Japanese, sometimes just Asian. When my family moved to a more affluent white neighbourhood, I started to see myself as 'other', this amorphous category. I didn't even know what 'not other' was, but I knew I wasn't it; I wasn't what was normal.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.
- Behave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk's closet.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020