Jiani Liu's collection of stories touches on everything from being a Chinese student in America to cross-cultural relations.

In an age of intolerance and prejudice, fresh new voices&nbsp;like Jiani Liu&#39;s&nbsp;are at the forefront of fighting for cross-cultural understanding. As relations between the United States and China slowly unravel after decades of diplomacy, the tense standoff between the two countries has intensified, fostering&nbsp;a new era of bias,&nbsp;misconceptions, and scapegoating.&nbsp;Jiani Liu, the driven millennial set on changing the world one column at a time, fights back against this lack of empathy between the two countries&nbsp;in her debut book, Across The Sea.&nbsp;

Liu spends her time stock trading, working at her non-profit organization, Millennials of U.S.-China, and much like the rest of us, fawning over the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/fall-2020-trends-fashion-week">latest fashion collections</a>. But how did the young businesswoman start writing columns about everything from the concept of the &lsquo;tiger mom&rsquo; and the Ivy League to the role of millennials and Gen Z in rebuilding the bridge between the East and West?

During&nbsp;her time at Brown University,&nbsp;Liu wrote a column for the China Business Network about her personal experience&nbsp;as one of the thousands of Chinese students attending college in the U.S. Liu&#39;s columns quickly became popular, racking up two billion page visits and catching the attention of CBN&#39;s chief editor. When he left CBN to start a new channel, Liu was chosen alongside 10 other authors in a collection of debut columns. Now the sole author of her debut book, Liu is one of the most-read millennial columnists in China.&nbsp;

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Popular due to her frank narrative, Liu&nbsp;reflects the voice of a young globalized community facing the outdated misconceptions from previous generations. In striving toward&nbsp;the eradication of prejudice between the U.S. and China, her columns lead&nbsp;the much-needed discussion of&nbsp;what it means to live and succeed in a time of unease between the two nations.&nbsp;In calling both countries home, Liu&nbsp;aims to be a&nbsp;&ldquo;vehicle to connect the two countries and change the misconceptions and biased perspectives.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Touching on&nbsp;culture, education,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/haim-on-feminism-and-fashion">feminism</a>, and now the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/politics-culture/books-to-read-pandemic">coronavirus</a>&nbsp;pandemic,&nbsp;Liu asserts in her columns&nbsp;that while there are notable differences between the U.S. and China, the countries are actually quite similar, both placing&nbsp;an emphasis on education and paving paths for women to succeed in the business world. However, the deep racism that emerged from the fear surrounding the early spread of the coronavirus&nbsp;has clouded these cultural conversations and replaced them with a rivalry between both governments. Liu, in response to this, notes the importance of having these conversations through technology.&nbsp;

In deciding to focus her professional life in China&nbsp;following the string of strict immigration laws created earlier this year by the Trump administration, Liu has had space to &ldquo;reflect and time to distil the most meaningful takeaways from [her]&nbsp;lived experience.&rdquo; This reflective era will appear in the U.S. version of her book.&nbsp;

Buy now: Across the Sea (Chinese Edition), $24, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Across-Sea-Chinese-Liu-Jiani/dp/7521714652">Amazon</a>

Meet Jiani Liu, the Young Writer Whose Debut Novel is Taking China By Storm

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