Imposter in your own career
Our friend, German-born Chinese, Zhiyang was made “the China bridge” to HQ at a German multinational before she even had the Mandarin to back it up.
She moved to China at age 26, barely able to hold a business conversation. Yet, she could read the room with Chinese colleagues and clients in ways a fully non-Chinese hire never could: the hierarchical structure, giving face. She just knew, even when the language failed her.
This is a real, funny, slightly chaotic chat between the three of us about never feeling Chinese enough, never feeling German enough, and the quiet pressure of being…
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