Afra Wang

I'm a freelance writer, researcher, podcaster, tech/crypto growth and marketing specialist, ex-news editor

Some things about me:

What keeps me busy these days:

My previous roles and experiences:

Writing Samples:

One of the goals for this career break is to write and publish more in English. In my past life, I freelanced and interned at various media outlets, often writing in Chinese under my Chinese name (王曌). (Note: while my old work reflects earlier stages of my development, it nonetheless remains a part of my journey.) Some examples:

Media and Other Presence:

Commonplace Book:

It is both privilege and curse of the diaspora that they can treat their homeland as an academic abstraction and interrogate it without reservation.

Having lived nearly half of my life far from my birth country, I describe my Chineseness as a linguistic belonging.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.

Computing and new media depend upon flesh-and-bone metabolism. Our "virtual worlds" are made possible by battalions of human beings.

Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively.

Omit needless words.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we've lived; they're the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments.

Other obsessions:

👋 hello (at) afrazhaowang at gmail dot com