Diary of an American Visiting Scholar

About This Novel

A, a 40-year-old single mother who was born in 1981, teaches alone in a 211 university in Guangzhou with a ten-year-old daughter. A divorced shortly after the child was born. The main reason for the divorce was that her ex-husband grew up in a single-parent family. Her ex-husband's mother was dissatisfied with her son's marriage and felt that it had changed her position in the family. After A's divorce, she resigned and left Beijing to study for a PhD in Chongqing. After finally getting her degree, she was busy looking for a job. Every step of migrating from Beijing to Guangzhou was not easy. I thought I could finally settle down, but the pressure of work, social discrimination and the sense of crisis due to my own age made me anxious due to various pressures. After being introduced by a colleague, A applied for a government-sponsored study abroad program. I originally thought that after going to the United States for a year, I would return to China and continue working, but this year happened to encounter the global outbreak of the new coronavirus. In addition to witnessing the cultural differences that have become more prominent under the epidemic between China and the United States, A also learned about the living conditions of overseas Chinese and the changes in the thinking of the domestic middle class who originally planned to immigrate. In addition, college teachers, a profession that has a high social status in the eyes of ordinary people, also has unknown bitterness. What the protagonist faces is not only the hesitation and confusion caused by the turning point in life, but what he sees and hears reflects the real situation of real contradictions in the context of accelerated social change: the anxiety of middle-class life.

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