Alien Citizen: ReviewPosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States on 2013-05-10 18:21Z by Steven |
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ALIEN CITIZEN
Asylum Lab
2013-05-13
Jose Ruiz
Elizabeth Liang steps on the solo stage to tell the world what it’s like to be a TCK (Third Culture Kid). These are people who, as children, traveled the globe intermittently because their parents were sent to diplomatic, business or military assignments and the family had to constantly adjust to new schools, new friends, new customs and new languages. Her father worked for a multi-national company and was sent to several different countries during her formative years.
That in itself is fodder for a fascinating story of growing up with indeterminate roots. When the story comes from Elizabeth Liang, whose ethnic heritage spans three continents, from her paternal roots in China, to her birth roots in Central America, to her mother’s varied European background, it becomes more than just a story…
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