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Canwen Xu



Average rating: 3.8 · 2,330 ratings · 835 reviews · 1 distinct workSimilar authors
Boring Asian Female

3.80 avg rating — 2,331 ratings — published 2026 — 8 editions
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“Through the darkness I caught a glimpse of the person who I could become: A person who loved and let herself be loved, a person who defined herself as a person rather than a list of qualifications. A person who was still a work in progress.”
Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“Some things in life are so magnificent that you can never talk about them enough, that no number of references would make them boring or derivative.”
Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

“The people I spent the most time around were those in my predominantly white high school, people who saw me as the other, as a foreigner, as someone who would never be quite the same as them. Growing up in this environment, I had learned how to perceive myself the way that they perceived me. Sometimes, it felt as though I had two identities: who I really was, and who others perceived me to be. And as I stared at myself in the mirror, with my tight ponytail and tortoiseshell glasses, my ripped Stanford shirt and baggy sweatpants, I saw not the first but the second, not the me that I knew, but the person that others knew as me.”
Canwen Xu, Boring Asian Female

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