Yuan Yang: Britain’s first Chinese • Table.Briefings

Yuan Yang in her constituency of Earley and Woodley in South East England.

When Yuan Yang was four years old, her parents brought her from the mountains of Sichuan province to the UK. After more than 20 years, she returned to the country of her birth as a correspondent. Yuan Yang is now the first Chinese-born British Member of Parliament.

„My friends in the UK, locked out of London, call themselves ‘Generation Rent’. My friends in Beijing are ‘Generation Involution’, part of a system that absorbs more and more effort and yields less and less.“ When Yuan Yang writes about her experiences in China, she often writes about her own generation, called Jiǔlínghòu („九零后 – those born from 1990 onwards“).

Yuan Yang: Britain’s first Chinese-born Member of Parliament

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