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My name is Vickie Wang 王宇平. I’m a Taiwanese writer, interpreter, stand-up comedian, and devout cat lady, currently splitting my time between Taipei and New York. This Substack is a sandbox at the moment, where I’m writing new pieces and sharing some old #COVIDCatLady posts I had written during my time in Shanghai.
I call this Happy Medium because that’s what I strive for. As a bilingual, cultural in-betweener, I constantly straddle two or more perspectives, searching for the happy medium. A translator/interpreter/writer is by definition a medium, a conduit through which stories flow, and if I succeed in doing that well, that makes me a Happy Medium.
I’m creating this space with the hope of building a Chinese diaspora and ally community, a place where folk with varying degrees of affinity to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, China and beyond to connect in [waves at the world] whatever this is.
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