Val Wang is an author and filmmaker interested in the intersection between the personal and the global. Evan Osnos has called her memoir Beijing Bastard “perfectly suited to the Beijing that she brings to life so well: heedless, pungent, and proudly insubordinate.” Her writing has appeared in The Common, Elle, and The Toast, among other venues. Val directed the documentary The Flip Side: A Global Circus Story, which won Best Documentary Short at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon. She created and produced Planet Takeout, an interactive, multiplatform documentary for WGBH on the role of Chinese takeouts as a vital cultural crossroads in America. Her other multimedia work has been broadcast on PBS, WGBH, and WBUR, among others. She is an Associate Professor in the English and Media Studies Department of Bentley University. She lives in Cambridge with her family.
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