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Helen Zia Quotes

born 1952 United States

Helen Zia (born 1952) is a Chinese-American journalist and activist for Asian American and LGBTQ rights.

United States
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My primary identity as a kid was being rejected by American society—because you’re from another country, you can’t possibly be American—and my parents’ identity more as being Chinese, so I saw myself as Chinese…

U.S. history and China's history are very, very deeply - and in a complicated way - intertwined with each other over a few hundred years. And so there were times when that relationship was fraught with tension. But there were also times of great friendship…

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