Editorial Illustration for The Guardian
‘As borders closed, I became trapped in my Americanness’: China, the US and me
Reported by Angela Qian and edited by Suzanne Lemon
pub. May 6, 2021
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“We couldn’t put flowers on the bodies; we couldn’t, as our relatives in China did, go back to the apartment afterwards and lay oranges by my grandparents’ photos. How alienating it was, to be sending our spirits through our screens – rectangles the size of our hands. My grandparents’ deaths still do not feel real. Not really. They were already so far away.”