She was watching something eerily similar to her own personal experience with the ex-boyfriend. Yang wasn’t among the protesters, but the massacre proved to be an “a-ha” moment. Yang watched in horror as Chinese troops fired on unarmed protesters. Then, in 1989, the Tiananmen Square Massacre snapped her to attention. A panel from Belle Yang's graphic novel Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale. For three years, she toured the country and studied classical Chinese art. Yang is more frank in the autobiography on her web site, where she writes that she “raged” against the language, iconography, beliefs of her parents: “I wanted to run away from the Chinese universe I had been born into and launch into an American world view, free of the weight of memories.”īut after college, in her mid-20s, a relationship went sour, and her physically-abusive boyfriend became a violent stalker. “Growing up here,” she says, “I started to go my own way.” The Yang family, early upon their arrival in San Francisco in 1967, looking a little shell-shocked. The family arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area when she was just 7 years old, and like many children of immigrants, Yang was eager to put the old world behind her. Belle Yang wasn’t always graciously fascinated with her parents tales of days gone by.
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