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Anna Wang
Sep 286 min read
A Life of Abundance
Explore the double life of artists through Li-young Lee's poetry. Discover the abundance of creativity and the struggle for recognition.
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Anna Wang
Sep 43 min read
The Elasticity of Time
My five-minute speech on my first-ever MA in creative writing program's reading event.
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Anna Wang
Aug 47 min read
The Ultimate Human Bondage is Our Desire for Meaningful Human Connections
Maugham's "Of Human Bondage" reveals that the desire for connection at our most blissfully receptive moment is humans' ultimate bondage.
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Anna Wang
Sep 21, 20234 min read
A Daring Voice and a Profound Lesson—John Okada’s "No-No Boy"
The Japanese American writer John Okada possesses a bold and compelling voice. In his 1957 novel, No-No Boy, he skillfully explores the...
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Anna Wang
May 7, 20217 min read
Peter Mitchelmore Provides Street Advice in “The Trouble with China”
Peter Mitchelmore’s observation on China stands out because he stayed there from 1999 to 2003, the formative period of today's super power.
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Anna Wang
Dec 13, 20208 min read
Fortunate or Unfortunate Sons?
Why can't Western-trained Chinese elites save China?
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Anna Wang
Jul 20, 20208 min read
How I Ended up Having Six WeChat Accounts and Why I Support Banning WeChat in the US
I support banning WeChat in the U.S. I think it is good for Chinese Americans in the long run.
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Anna Wang
Mar 22, 20205 min read
I Don’t Take Offense to Trump Saying “Chinese virus”
It is a "Chinese virus."
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Anna Wang
Feb 17, 20208 min read
Standing on the Ground, We Knew
Isaac Bashevis Singer once said, “The writer needs an address, very badly needs one. It is [her] roots.” The Yellow House is a memoir...
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Anna Wang
Oct 8, 20197 min read
Do You Hear the People Sing, Mr. Friedman?
As a witness of the Tiananmen Square Protests, I have different views with Thomas L. Friedman’s opinion about Hong Kong protests.
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Anna Wang
Sep 29, 20194 min read
The Making of "Inconvenient Memories"
My grandmother was born in 1920. She had liberation feet: bound feet that had been freed halfway through the process. China’s practice of...
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Anna Wang
Sep 4, 20193 min read
I Witnessed the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Here's Why China Wouldn't Dare Do the Same in Hong Kong
My husband and I were both born in Beijing, but we became permanent residents of Canada in 2006. My husband still spends most of his time...
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Anna Wang
Jul 15, 20193 min read
The Surprising 1/3 of Your Novel
You've already got 1/3 of your novel.
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Anna Wang
Jun 27, 20199 min read
How Translation Bridges Two Worlds
On August 6, 2015, Anna Wang gave a speech at a reading event hosted by Richmond Public Library.
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Anna Wang
Jun 27, 20194 min read
How I Met My First Stories
The Speech at Simon Fraser University in June 2014 I graduated from Beijing University in 1988. Being urban Chinese, I felt that 1988 was...
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Anna Wang
Jun 27, 20194 min read
The Business of Being Chinese
I had always regarded Chinese New Year as a nuisance throughout my adult years in China. Based on the the traditional lunisolar Chinese...
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Anna Wang
Jun 27, 20196 min read
A Self-reflection: Why I Participated in the Protest
The story I’m about to tell is an old story. In an election season and a fast-paced society, something that happened three weeks ago is...
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Anna Wang
Jun 27, 20191 min read
Trust Issues Faced by China and Huawei
Hong Kong writer Leung Man-Tao recently published a blog post describing a strange incident. He’d bought a large number of books in...
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