In France since 1990. Born in 1968.
One brother. Mother: housekeeper. Father: Retired, used to run an import export business, and then had a stall.

My mother has always been a woman of her home. In her time, the position of women was defined by being a wife. Suddenly she pushed me to study, to obtain a diploma to be economically and intellectually autonomous… My brother had the same education… I was a model daughter, studious, well behaved. I started to make music when I was seven years old… I was educated to be independent, not to be at home.

When I was twelve I got into an official music structure, that is to say I went to a special school. You get in there by contest… My mother has done everything so I´d have good working conditions, backing support and private lessons. When I obtained my License in Music I prepared at the same time to go to the US… but I learned French at the same time because I learned to hold the arc in the French way… I chose France… however the image of the United States is more prestigious. Trainings abroad are very highly valued. All people of good families have to go abroad. I had the idea that French culture was very refined, elegant, romantic… When I came to Roissy it was full of strangers. There are very different cultures here, of different origins, it’s more open…

Currently I have the French citizenship. I´ve been here seven years. I know the French culture better… Perhaps we are more centered on the family, I find French women arrogant… sometimes they can behave like men. I think they are selfish, at the center of the world… too liberal, perhaps. That is undoubtedly the cultural difference between Europe and Asia. Paradoxically I find the men more delicate… in any case more than the Chinese.

In China one is mostly in debt with the family, which explains that the efforts made by the family must be rewarded by professional success. It is often a family debt.

I am married to a Frenchman, a musician, and for me the sense of family is now different than it was in Taiwan… for example if I was married to a Taiwanese and I couldn´t have children it would be a huge problem because I wouldn´t be able to carry on his name, but here it is different. I think it´s difficult to have children of two different cultures… one of the two wouldn´t be able to manifest… distance helps to erase all that.