An Interview with Translator Kevin Wang

Dear all,

Hello! We’re thinking of all of you. We’re back this week with an interview with Kevin Wang, who was born in China and migrated to the U.S. when he was nine years old. It’s been four years since he moved to Taiwan. He talks about his journey to becoming a translator & writer, what it’s like being Chinese American in Taiwan, and how he’s made a life here.

A brief update: a couple of weekends ago, we tagged along on a university trip to Guangfu Township, Hualien led by Professor Gina Tsai, herself a Hualien native. She and her amazing assistant Casper brought over 40 college students from National Chengchi University. Together we went to a farm that was ground zero of last year’s floods. She told us said the farm would not exist without the 100,000 people in Taiwan who spontaneously traveled across the country to shovel mud. (These were the “shovel superheroes” of Taiwan.) We also visited an indigenous village, where we learned how to craft eco-containers from paper…