In France since 1984. Born in 1878.
Three sisters. Parents: restorers.

I´ve been living in France for 23 years. My grandmother came to France in 1973. My parents and older sister came in 1980 claiming family regrouping… I was too young to go then. My uncle and aunt on my father’s side took care of me. I came to France four years after my parents. The Chinese talk little… they keep important things to themselves… the cultural revolution has reinforced that characteristic… this nature, this Chinese behavior… I’ve never talked with my parents of my feelings of having been abandoned. I’ve been mad with them… at the same time, I understand them… it is very Chinese. It is the same with my boyfriend. They accept him more or less, but they don’t talk about him, even more since he is younger than me. There are still many taboos. Chinese is really a way of thinking. My older sister and I have the French nationality, because our parents, who are now French, wanted it like that. I feel Chinese when I’m with French and French when I’m with Chinese people… we are all somebody’s foreigner. Because I was born in China… because my mother language is Chinese I have many things from China. The place where you’re born determines many things. My two little sisters, who were born in France, are different. I’m proud of having that double culture… I can build infinity of bridges… In China the group dominates, you have to be able to reconcile. A lot of attention is placed on social status… I don’t care about that. I feel different from the girls of Shanghai (my mother is from Shanghai), and I feel more Parisian. I feel better as a woman here… I feel better at 30 than I felt at 20.