Global Echo｜Victoria Zhang—A Guide to Loving and Letting Go
This is Echora’s new podcast series, ”Global Echo”, We’ll invite scholars in the humanities for half-academic, half-casual conversations—packed with pro insights but never hard to follow—hoping to bring the charm of the humanities to more people.🌟Echora HostAdella @Adella GuGu Translator of <Desire and Domestic Fiction>（Chinese version） First Prize of the CUHK Literary Award（全球华文青年文学奖）🌟Global GuestVictoria Chang is an American poet, writer, editor, and critic. She has experimented with different styles of writing, including writing poems shaped in obituaries, for parts of her life, including her parents and herself, in OBIT, letters in Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, and a Japanese form known as waka in The Trees Witness Everything. In all of her poems and books, Chang has several common themes: living as an Asian-American woman, depression, and dealing with loss and grief. She has also written three books for children🌟Global ContentThroughout the episode, Victoria shares insights into her creative process, the evolution of her poetry collections and how writing serves as a medium for understanding life and loss. We also delve into her experience as a Chinese-American woman, exploring themes of cultural disconnection and identity anxiety. Victoria opens up about her relationship with her mother, the complexities of being a daughter and a mother herself, and how caregiving across generations has shaped her perspective on love, loss, and legacy.🌟Timeline04:10: Writing as a way against forgetting08:20: The inspiration for writing12:30: I don't always tell the truth20:00: The solace of poetry in modern time27:30: To take writing as a life-long journey33:30: The sacrifice that parents made to make our lives better42:30: Mothers and us are very different people45:30: How to be a mother and a daughter at the same time47:10: Chinese mothers: powerful or admirable50:30: To be a care-giver to both parents and children53:50: How to help kids understand death57:00: It’s important to teach the next generation to love reading63:00: Poem reading <Teeth>🌟About EchoraEchora is a community for cultural resonance initiated by veteran humanities creators—translators, freelance writers, literary editors, and more. It dedicates itself to exploring an ecology of humanities and social sciences content that carries intellectual depth yet remains accessible, profound without being obscure. We regularly craft fluid conversational gatherings in urban humanities spaces, where through diverse perspectives we perceive, unpack, and confront the plights of real life. May the contours of growth become threads weaving through each other’s lives; may we find, within this spiritual aura, the courage to face life head-on.🌟Teams members Host: 阿黛Adella Planner: Dan Dan @丹丹的一隅 Producer: Eason @复杂生活🌟Music Rootless tree – Damien Rice Jets – Blur🌟Contact Us Email：zengyingsheng@pictrip.com.cn easoneng@163.com Wechat：sunmerineason
