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Esther ZhuangEsther Zhuang

Esther Zhuang works in social media and also blogs at missestherz.com

Growing up Chinese in a white world

7 April 20197 April 2019 by Esther Zhuang

Esther Zhuang on bananas, sunflowers, and a childhood in New Zealand as an outlier in two cultures. My Granddad loved bananas. Whether they were pale yellow just blossomed from green, or a golden yellow with black and brown freckles didn’t matter. He said it was because he had a full set of false teeth, and … Read more

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