Hi,
My name is Mi Man Tian and I am a 19-year-old college student at Sichuan University. I was born into a very well-off family, both my parents’ Mi Fang (Father) and Mi Ying (Mother) are doctors at the local hospital. I have a younger brother still in upper secondary school in Chengdu where we live. I also have an older sister who is also in university at the University of Electronic Science and Technology in Chengdu. She excels at math and science just like she always has and has aspirations to become a doctor to follow in the footsteps of our parents. My grandparents passed when I was young so never had a relationship with them but I was told they were from rural Wenjingjiangzhen just on the outskirts of the province of Sichuan. As I’ve alluded to I am from Chengdu in the province of Sichuan, it is a city that is a top wealthiest city in China.
The reason I chose to become a reporter during this time in the nation is because education was highly valued in our family, and my parents instilled a deep love for learning in us. I attended the local school my father attended and he made sure I knew the importance of education. We poured over classical texts, studied calligraphy, and debated the writings of Confucius and Sun Tzu. In 1932, China was at a crossroads, facing political instability and the impending threat of war. As I grew older, I became increasingly aware of the larger world around me. I big part of that is my grandparents having to be a peasant farmer and it took my father leaving his village to provide a comfortable life for our family. My dream was to become a diplomat and contribute to China’s future on the international stage as well as to inform the public about the many failures of Confucianism with accurate and unbiased information, empowering them to make informed decisions in this system where information is often tightly controlled or manipulated by those in power.
I hope in the coming years I can provide such information for you the readers and inspire real change in Chinese society.