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Chinatown 2 0: East Asian Historian Sixiang Wang
Chinatown 2.0
English - August 07, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes - 61.7 MBDocumentary Society & Culture Personal Journals academia business personal america american bicultural china chinese crossborder crossculture Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Sixiang Wang is an assistant professor in Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA, specializing in Korea’s premodern history. He speaks fluent mandarin, writes Chinese poems and is well-versed in China's history and culture. Sixiang described his journey of attempting to self-distance from his Chinese identity to embracing and mastering the language and culture. He shared how studying Korean history somehow helped him reconcile a lifelong passion for Chinese studies with his American identity. We also talked about the current state of Sino-US relation and analogized Trump's presidency with past Chinese emperors. Lastly, we touched upon Sixiang's philosophy of child-raising that deviates from the traditional Chinese parenting style.