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b'Jiayang Fan is a staff writer for\\xa0The New Yorker. Her latest article is a "How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda.""I think considering the unusual shape of our lives\\u2014the lives of my mother and I\\u2014from bare subsistence to one of the richest enclaves in America \\u2026 it made me think about what the value of existence is. ... It made me wonder,\\xa0What should a person be? And how should a person be?\\xa0And being a writer has been a lifelong quest to answer those questions."\\n\\nThanks to\\xa0Mailchimp\\xa0for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow notes\\n\\n\\xa0\\n@JiayangFan\\nFan on Longform\\nFan at The New Yorker\\n02:00\\xa0"How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Sept 2020)\\n09:00\\xa0"Hong Kong\'s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City\'s Soul"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Dec 2019)\\n40:00\\xa0"China\'s Selfie Obsession"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 Dec 2017)\\n41:00\\xa0"China\'s Mistress-Dispellers"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 June 2017)\\n43:00\\xa0"How E-Commerce is Transforming Rural China"\\xa0(New Yorker \\u2022 July 2018)\\n\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'