Dan Wang

But you're kind of just aware that the anaconda is there and you start self-censoring yourself in all sorts of ways.

And I decided I didn't need to live in China and have that.

Now, I wonder whether the Chinese state will like my book.

I try to write the truest story as I can, which meant capturing the successes as well as the traumas of the Chinese state.

What I plan to do is in a couple of months from now, when I submit my visa application, they'll have some time to think about it.

They'll have had time to react to my book.

No surprises.

If they give me a visa to go to my favorite city in the world, Shanghai, my favorite region of the world, southwest China, along with all those wonderful mountains and wonderful pickles and bowls of noodles in Guizhou.

I would be delighted to visit.

And if they do not give me a visa, then I cannot visit.

And so I think my life is really quite simple.

Curl up on my couch and read some great novels.

Everyone's reading Middlemarch.

I haven't read Middlemarch yet.

So that is something that's quite exciting for me.

I want to be engaged with the broader Chinese diaspora, people who have decided to move to Thailand.

There's a set of people who've moved to New York.

They host feminist stand-up comedy in Mandarin.

And I want to be supportive of these sorts of efforts.

Engineers I know in Silicon Valley, I want to help integrate them into society and make