Your Hosts: Dan, Piper, and Tempest, with special guest Yang Yang Wang
Yang Yang Wang, an author, actor, and director (among many other things) joins us for a discussion of language, food, and a whole raft of other cultural elements critical to crafting Chinese-American characters.
Credits: this episode was recorded by Ross Smith and mastered by Alex Jackson
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Take a culture, and a character who is a descendent of immigrants from that culture, then write a scene where that character returns to the original culture
All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
This week, Piper, Dan, and Tempest welcomed Yang Yang Wang to talk about writing the Chinese-American other. What kind of representations do you find in media? How do good characters relate to stereotypes, language, and food? Lots of useful observations and discussion, available now in the transcript in the archives.
The transcript is also available over here:
https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/177444.html