The Journey of an Immigrant's Dream
Yi XueA lifelong negotiation between assimilation and heritage, and a reckoning between following a script and finding my true self.
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Amateur
I have been reading James Somers’ Word of the Day for almost a year now, thanks to ’s recommendation. What James wrote on August 14, 2026, gave me a lot to think about.
Amateur.
I don’t think I ever had to look up the word; I got t...
What I Would Like To Tell My Younger Self
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Variation 18. Daniil Trifonov with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Full moon on July 28th, 2026. Time-lapse video taken on my phone, edited with CapCut.
Four years have passed since I...
The Dream House on a Slope
A departure from my usual first-person memoir essays, this piece is narrated from a different distance and angle, in a fictionalized form.
Content note: This essay touches upon suicide and mental health.
Sarah Fehr: Cottage in the valley...
Holding Hands
This essay was originally edited and published by in her on May 12th. This is a revision of that essay with a video added at the end— a compilation of both of our playing of Chopin’s Impromptu No. 3, Op. 51.
This weekend, we remember Mom...
The Garden House
This is part four, the final installment of a multi-part essay, about the life stories of my grandparents, A Gong 阿公 and A Puo 阿婆.
To read previous parts: Under The Fair Moon here, Shanghai, Where Everything Happened here, and The Wear of...
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Writer, pianist, technologist, advisor, and coach who enjoys sharing stories about her Chinese heritage, navigating Corporate America, and her journey to find identity and purpose as a first-generation immigrant.
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