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Gender

Female

Hometown

Paris

About me

Hello ! My name is Cerise. I’m the network coordinator of eRenlai. If you have any comments or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me! My mission is to enable all of us to interact more and more as a real community, sharing insights, resources and stories. “Cerise” in French actually means “Cherry”. My parents chose this name because I was born on a street of Paris called “Cherry Tree Street” (la rue de la cerisaie). Both of my parents are Chinese. As I was born in France, I belong to the so-called “banana generation”. Children of Chinese immigrants in France call themselves “banana” because we are “yellow outside” as we look Asian but “white inside” as we grew up in a Western cultural environment, fully integrating the French culture. When I was studying French modern literature at the University of Paris, I met a girl who was born in Korea but was adopted very young by a French family. We were sharing the same deep interest for literature, and for the French and Latin cultures in general. Once she told me that she felt somehow like a “tree without roots”. Though for my part I know well my origins, it is probably in order to get closer to them that I decided to come to Taiwan. Also, I always wanted to improve my Chinese. In this garden of my own, I think I am more like a weeping willow: well enrooted in the soil, my branches are still bending to be soaked by the running waters of Chinese culture.

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大家好 ! 我是安瑩 (法文名字是 Cerise)，我擔任e人籟串連地球的聯絡人 。不管有任何問題，都歡迎你跟我聯絡！ “Cerise” 法文的意思就是「小櫻桃」。我在巴黎的 「櫻桃樹街」出生，於是父母為我選了這個名字。我的父母都是移民到法國的華人。對於我這個年代在法國出生的華人，有人為我們取了特別的綽號，把我們稱作是「香蕉」——外黃內白：雖然外表看起來像亞洲人，但是實質上還是受到了西方的影響比較多，文化認同與生活習慣還是比較接近法國人。 我在巴黎大學念法國文學的時候，認識了一位女同學，她在韓國出生，但她從小就被一個法國家庭收養，和我一樣在巴黎長大。有一天，她告訴我，儘管她在法國很幸福，跟他家人的相處也很融洽，但是她還是覺得自己是一棵「無根之樹」。然而，我的情況是不一樣的，我很清楚我的來源。我來到台灣，為了就是希望能夠瞭解我父母的文化，也希望自己的中文能夠更上一層樓。 來到台灣，我變成了垂柳：我的根在岸邊紮根，我的枝葉隨著水流漂送。

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Country

Taiwan

City / Town

Taipei

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