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Model Minority Gone Rogue with Qin Qin

2024/11/14
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秦勤:我的回忆录讲述了我如何从一个“好亚洲女儿”转变为寻找自我,以及在这个过程中感受到的迷茫和混乱。我曾经为了满足父母和社会的期望而努力,但最终发现,真正的幸福在于接纳自己的本真,并按照自己的意愿生活。我希望我的故事能够鼓励那些感到空虚和迷茫的人,勇敢地追求自己的梦想,打破模范少数族裔的束缚,找到真正的自我。 陈尼·徐:我非常理解秦勤的感受,因为我也曾面临类似的文化期望和职业压力。我很高兴看到她能够勇敢地打破这些束缚,找到自己的道路。她的故事对于许多亚裔女性来说,具有重要的启发意义。

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This week, we have host Chenni Xu to discuss the new book of an old friend from her expat days in Beijing, Qin Qin (formerly Lisa Qin), Model Minority Gone Rogue: How an unfulfilled daughter of a tiger mother went way off-script, which debuted earlier this year in Australia and New Zealand and was published by Hachette.In this episode, Qin Qin discusses her journey of transformation into her true self, challenges along the way of this reconstruction, and also her writing journey and the road to publishing. Qin Qin and Chenni also discuss their similar upbringings, expectations, and how to break out of those constrictions -- successfully or not. Qin Qin's spiritual, career, personal and her own sexual identity figure into her "Becoming" story.