Anna Wang
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 4
- 7 min
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, 2023
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 8 min
Fortunate or Unfortunate Sons?
Why can't Western-trained Chinese elites save China?
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Anna Wang
- Jul 20, 2020
- 8 min
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, 2020
- 5 min
I Don’t Take Offense to Trump Saying “Chinese virus”
It is a "Chinese virus."
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Anna Wang
- Feb 17, 2020
- 8 min
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, 2019
- 7 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
The Surprising 1/3 of Your Novel
You've already got 1/3 of your novel.
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Anna Wang
- Jun 27, 2019
- 9 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 6 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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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Anna Wang
- Jun 27, 2019
- 6 min
The Newest Family Differences
I picked up my parents at LAX the day after New Year’s. It’d been five years since they’d visited. “California looks the same,” my father...
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