Wendy Shang

I haven't read the Girl of the Year books before, usually sticking to historical lines in my project to read series that came out after I aged out of the demographic. But, Corinne Tan is both 1) American Born Chinese like me and 2) shares the same surname character (albeit the Mandarin romanization) so I'm obligated to eventually pick this up. Very well done, considering how topical this is (was not expecting references to Eileen Gu, but in hindsight not surprising given Corinne's hobby is skiing!) Really loved drawing the connection between modern day xenophobia (the "kung flu" crowd) and the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882.… (plus d'informations)