There are more Chinese millennials than there are people in America, but they rarely tell their own stories
was a rebellion. Her mother hid her coveted but illegal second pregnancy from officials and neighbours in her village. At the time, under China’s one-child policy, women who already had children were sterilised or forced to have long-term contraceptives surgically inserted. But Chaoqun slipped through the system’s cracks, and was born in 1989, just a few months before the protests that culminated in a military assault on Tiananmen Square. She grew up to work for the.
As a student in Beijing, Ms Kan was exposed to foreign ideas. Thanks to an American lecturer’s encouragement, she became obsessed with learning English. In “Under Red Skies” she tells her story in straightforward English prose that still suggests her Chinese roots. For example, a romantic crush leads to a little deer roaming in her stomach, not butterflies. After graduation she found a job writing about Beijing for an English-language publication.
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