{"id":48719,"date":"2014-11-20T08:46:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T12:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=48719"},"modified":"2014-10-30T03:28:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T07:28:34","slug":"mocareads-into-the-wilds-of-a-changing-china-with-val-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=48719","title":{"rendered":"MOCAREADS: Into the Wilds of a Changing China with Val Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11\/20\/2014<br \/>\nThe Museum of Chinese in America<br \/>\n215 Centre Street New York, NY 10013<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Beijing-Bastard-cover-final-397x600.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[48719]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Beijing-Bastard-cover-final-397x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJoin Val Wang as she shares her unique, not-quite-outsider\u2019s Chinese American perspective of life in contemporary China. She will read excerpts from her memoir, Beijing Bastard, and share film clips from the Sixth Generation directors. Raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Val first stumbled upon Beijing Bastards by the Sixth Generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan during a junior year abroad in Sweden. The movie \u201copened an escape hatch into a world mirror opposite of the version of China I had grown up with, where we were all nerdy, overachieving droids with no errant desires of our own who lived out of the script as it had been handed to us, marching through the Ivy Leagues into respectable professional careers.\u201d In 1998, Wang moved to China, the land her parents had fled from before the Communist takeover in 1949. She arrived in Beijing expecting to find freedom but instead lived in the old city with her traditional relatives, who monitored her every move. But outside, she soon discovered a city rebelling against its roots just as she too was struggling to find a new, modern identity. Book signing to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Admission: $12\/Adult; $7\/Student &amp; Senior; FREE for MOCA Member<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mocanyc.org\/visit\/events\/mocareads_into_the_wilds_of_a_changing_china_with_val_wang\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mocanyc.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/20\/2014 The Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street New York, NY 10013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48750,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48719\/revisions\/48750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}