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Lost in Transrations: Chinese Laundry
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Chinese girl in a big world. Friday, April 15, 2011. I recently watched a talk, given by Hans Rosling at TED. One of the main things my mother warned me about China before I left for the summer was the fact that there will be more times than not I had to hand-wash my clothes. Make sure you NEVER leave a big pile of laundry like you do at home! You're going to have to hand-wash your clothes, or at least give them time to line dry outside! To sum this all up, one of the lessons I learned in my experience i...
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Lost in Transrations: Jennifer Fang and Her Unoriginal Username
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Chinese girl in a big world. Friday, February 11, 2011. Jennifer Fang and Her Unoriginal Username. Jennifer Fang’s username on the popular social bookmarking site diigo.com is unoriginal. Her profile. Is mostly blank and she has no picture. Hers is the kind of profile I would not take a second look at—on diigo.com, she is a n00b. Jennifer Fang is most likely a Chinese American graduate student working on her dissertation. This is noticeable from her tag cloud. Dedicated to Asian American history, demogra...
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Lost in Transrations: April 2011
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Chinese girl in a big world. Friday, April 15, 2011. I recently watched a talk, given by Hans Rosling at TED. One of the main things my mother warned me about China before I left for the summer was the fact that there will be more times than not I had to hand-wash my clothes. Make sure you NEVER leave a big pile of laundry like you do at home! You're going to have to hand-wash your clothes, or at least give them time to line dry outside! To sum this all up, one of the lessons I learned in my experience i...
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Lost in Transrations: Inferior Western Parenting
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Chinese girl in a big world. Friday, January 28, 2011. In light of a recent controversy involving a certain Yale professor and her “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, there have been many criticisms about stereotypical Asian mothers and their parenting ways. One such criticism comes from an “ Angry Asian Man. Not only does he clearly convey his opinion about the Wall Street Journal article written by Amy Chua. To be honest, at first I thought it was satire, until I was hit with the sickening, sinking real...
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Lost in Transrations: Hello, World. 你好，世界。
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Chinese girl in a big world. Wednesday, January 26, 2011. Hello, World. 你好，世界。 Hello, World. These two words seem appropriate at the present moment, because it explains what this blog is going to be about—a search for one’s personal identity, a journey of self-discovery. At one point in our lives, we have asked ourselves “Who am I? What makes me who I am? 8221;, but it is only through personal experience that one can answer these baffling questions. This Chinese girl is me. Chinese, Korean, Japanese?
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Lost in Transrations: February 2011
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Chinese girl in a big world. Friday, February 18, 2011. I remember the incident like it happened yesterday. Although try as I might to forget. It was the end of my first month of my two month summer trip to China, and I was in Beijing. My cousin and I were walking through the underground tunnel that connected Line 5 to Line 10 of the Beijing Subway. Elbowing through masses of Chinese people, who without regard of exiting passengers, shove their way into the subway car was a daily challenge for me. Is mos...
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Lost in Transrations: March 2011
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Chinese girl in a big world. Monday, March 21, 2011. I suspect the parts for Apple products are also from China, so wouldn’t it make sense for them to have some overstock without telling Apple and sneaking some extras to be sold at a discounted price? Maybe I’m thinking about this wrong, but I think it’s ridiculous that the iPad 2 is more expensive in the country it actually is manufactured in.". Links to this post. Friday, March 11, 2011. Figure 1: The lobby. Uyghurs are an ethnic minority in China, and...
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Lost in Transrations: May 2011
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Chinese girl in a big world. Sunday, May 8, 2011. Once You Go Black, You Can't Ever Go Back (Home). Growing up in the United States, I have constantly been taught to be tolerant of other cultures and ethnicities. In fact, I have been constantly taught to not only be tolerant but even to be respectful and even embrace other cultures and ethnicities. That said, all this teaching of tolerance and respect mainly came from public school. Figure 1: A typical birthday party. In my family, we just never talked a...
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Lost in Transrations: Hey! That's out of line!
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Chinese girl in a big world. Friday, March 4, 2011. That's out of line! Last summer, my travels in China started in Shanghai. And unless you lived under a rock last year, you would know that the World Expo was held in Shanghai at the time. Things like the World Expo were like a once-in-a-lifetime experience to me, because when will I ever have an opportunity to ever browse the World Expo again? Figure 1: The closest I came to being back home in China. Things did not look so bad and I was quickly regainin...
