BY TARA SUN VANACORE The Chinese-American novelist Yu Lihua (於梨华), who died in April at the age of 90, is recognized as being one of the most influential writers of [ … ]
Category: Personal Essay
Why is China still so reluctant to help us find our birth parents?
BY ANDRÉ-ANNE CÔTÉ “Ayi, why did you start working at the orphanage?” I asked. “Because I had to. Orders were coming from the top. Of course, I wouldn’t have chosen [ … ]
Essay: Thrift Stor(i)es
BY GRACE OUYANG Nonnative is a new series of personal essays on the Asian American experience with a focus on Chinese culture by Grace Ouyang, a writer based in Brooklyn. [ … ]
Navigating my biracial identity as a Chinese-American living in China
BY MEGAN CATTEL I had been living in Shanghai for almost a year when I met a Chinese-American acquaintance for dinner. We had met once before, in New York, where [ … ]
Opinion: Why women are leaving Hong Kong tech companies
BY ATHENA LAM The silence expanded beyond the empty seat she left behind, which is right in the middle of the technology company’s open office in Hong Kong. Everyone who [ … ]
Personal Essay by a Chinese daughter: The half-truths we tell in times of sickness
BY WANG ZHEN My mother does not know she has grade three brain cancer. She knows she has brain cancer, and that the ugly thing needs to be taken out [ … ]
Personal Essay by a Chinese adoptee: I returned to China to find my biological family and discover my cultural roots
BY ANDRÉ-ANNE CÔTÉ Since I was young, I always knew I was adopted from China. My parents had adopted children from different origins: China, Haiti, and indigenous people in Canada. My [ … ]