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View map Free EventBeijing Bastard is a humorous coming-of-age story set in turn of the century Beijing. Val Wang tells the story of leaving her strict Chinese- American household for China, the country her parents left before the Communist takeover of 1949. Wang arrives in Beijing to stay with her traditional relatives and find a city turning against its roots. She attempts to find a new and modern identity as the city around her struggles to do the same.
Val Wang is an author and multimedia storyteller. She is the creator of Planet Takeout, an interactive, multiplatform documentary on the role of Chinese takeouts as a vital cultural crossroads in America. Beginning in Fall 2014 she will be an assistant professor in the English and Media Studies Department at Bentley University.
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