Born in Seoul, raised in Vancouver and Abu Dhabi, Soeun Lee is a writer and multidisciplinary artist seeking to engage with her unique cultural identity while bringing voice to those wrestling with their own. Other themes in her work include family relationships, ambition, art and beauty.
How Maxine Hong Kingston helped me understand my mother's shame
“No one said anything. We did not discuss it.” This is an apt summary of a haunting tradition in Eastern honor-shame culture: silencing disgrace. In “No Name Woman,” taken from her book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston describes a cautionary, and possibly legendary, story told to her by her Chinese immigrant mother of an […]
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