Nancy H
Born in Guangzhou, China into a family of
high ranking government officials and grocers, I have divided my time
between the halls of power and aisles of ramen noodles. For you
Americans unfamiliar with your great neighbor to the west, Guangzhou is
the 17th largest city in the world, with 12.78 million inhabitants and
.3 cars per person. Anyway, as a student I did Mao proud by earning the
prestigious “Three Good Student” award. As my parents don’t read
English, I can reveal that I had my first date while at No. 7 Middle
School, which nearly led to a “Three Minus One Good Student” award. My
next move was to get accepted to the GuangDong Experimental High School,
which is sort of like Philips Exeter Academy, but with machine gun
training instead of polo practice. I chose ‘Politics’ as my elective
course there, and while they taught me that Mao was essentially God
Incarnate, there was more truth to it than ‘Politics’ as practiced in
America. While at Guangzhou University, I played in a heavy metal band
called Smithereens. It was named after my keyboard skills.
So what brought me to the US? A marketing degree at Emerson College in Boston. I recently read that Boston is the No. 1 worst-dressed city in this country, and even with my marketing degree and a billion dollar ad campaign I could not change that. Only a flood of Biblical proportions would work. (Or if !nstant deposed Mayor Menino…) In conclusion, America has been good to me and it gives me a lot of dreams. I wouldn’t mind being a reporter at Phoenix TV back in Guangzhou, or a marketer in the film industry. It would be nice to build a kind of Chinese-American film exchange. As Confucius says, if Hollywood won’t be dope, have Beijing throw a rope.
Expert in chief
is that the garment district in boston?
Alexander Supertramp
Is she a devil or an angel?