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Jiayang Fan

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August 04, 1984

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Jiayang Fan (Chinese: 樊嘉扬; pinyin: Fán Jiāyáng) is a Chinese-American journalist. She was born in Chongqing and immigrated to the United States at the age of seven. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2016. Her works include cultural and political commentary, personal history, and food critique.

In her essay How My Mother And I Became Chinese Propaganda, also known as Motherland, featured in New Yorker, in September 2020, Jiayang Fan describes how, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, she and her mother became the target of Chinese nationalistic vitriol. In this heartbreaking article, she interweaves this event with their story of adjusting to a life as immigrants in the US. Caught in between two vastly different and increasingly ...more

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Motherland

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“Coordinating healthcare for a non-affluent patient in this country is like trying to play chess where the board is water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.”
― Jiayang Fan

tags: america, crisis, health, healthcare-system, illness, united-states

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