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"Knowing how to speak Chinese doesn't mean you know what to say in Chinese"

In 2019, before my son was born, I began recording a spontaneous series of video reflections—messages to my future child explaining our world in context. As American-born Chinese (ABC), we are ethnically Chinese but rai...

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