Page 6 - Te Ping Chen News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Review: Journalist’s first collection of fiction excels by Ann Levin, The Associated Press Posted Feb 1, 2021 9:46 am EDT Last Updated Feb 1, 2021 at 9:58 am EDT This cover image released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt shows "Land of Big Numbers" by Te-Ping Chen. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt via AP) “Land of Big Numbers,” by Te-Ping Chen (Mariner Books) A Chinese tech company recently made headlines for its use of “smart” cushions in office chairs to monitor its employees’ workplace performance. It’s the kind of creepy surveillance you’d expect in the dystopian fiction of George S...

Ann Levin This cover image released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt shows "Land of Big Numbers" by Te-Ping Chen. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt via AP) February 01, 2021 - 6:46 AM “Land of Big Numbers,” by Te-Ping Chen (Mariner Books) A Chinese tech company recently made headlines for its use of “smart” cushions in office chairs to monitor its employees’ workplace performance. It’s the kind of creepy surveillance you’d expect in the dystopian fiction of George Saunders — and now, the blazingly talented newcomer Te-Ping Chen. The dau...

The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Chen is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal who spent several years covering Hong Kong and Beijing for the newspaper. In her debut story collection, "Land of Big Numbers," she moves effortlessly between the two countries, illuminating the lives of ordinary, often damaged, people on both sides of the Pacific. Some of her characters are depicted as victims of the cruel conditions of their society, whether it’s the totalitarian rule of Communist China or the rampant consumerism of capitalist America. Others are just wounded souls. In "Field Notes on a Mar...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The writer Te-Ping Chen grew up in California in a Chinese American family. She says she did what kids from immigrant families often do. Her parents sent her to bilingual school. She attended classes in Chinese styles of painting and calligraphy. But her family did not take her across the Pacific. TE-PING CHEN: I always wanted to go to China. I was always really curious about the country. And I remember in high school when I asked my father if I could go, he said, no, you can't go. You'll go, you'll shoot your mouth off, and they'll throw you in prison. But the country co...

Jessica Zack January 30, 2021Updated: February 1, 2021, 5:29 pm Author Te-Ping Chen was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing. Photo: Lucas Foglia Te-Ping Chen says that when she moved to Beijing in 2014 to work as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, it was helpful as both a journalist and a fiction writer that she felt like such an outsider. Even though she speaks Mandarin and grew up in an Oakland family proud of her Chinese heritage, the country struck Chen firsthand as “utterly surreal, like a place where you’re always on the precipice of...