You mean the Taiwanese consulate in Hamburg?
I was just like, “OK, that’s all nice, but I don’t think many Germans have rice cookers,” for example.
Very good. Quickly, your party politics.
Right. I get you don’t have any…
That kind of party, or?
Where?
Here in Taipei?
OK, I didn’t know. You used to work for a KMT government, now a DPP?
Sorry, yeah, with.
We had that discussion, sorry. Just ways of saying that slip out like that. I guess for you, it doesn’t change much, as long as you can do what you want and get your ideas through?
It doesn’t really matter what kind of government you’re working with?
Very interesting. We have five minutes left, so let’s just jump to some more personal questions, if you don’t mind.
Maybe which question did nobody ever ask you?
25.
What do you mean, what time is it?
Ah, what time is it? Sorry, OK.
Maybe something more interesting to you.
Not only journalists, anybody.
I’m not going to ask that question, because you already asked it.
Do you want to answer that one?
Right. That’s maybe why nobody ever asks you.
What’s your earliest childhood memory?
What was it?
That’s terrible.
How did you…Sorry?
Yeah. Talking about building character, what other major influences, maybe from your childhood, your upbringing?
Right. One question you get asked all the time, I just wanted to make sure it’s still the case. Your gender, your identity, you used to say your gender or whatever is…
OK. I’m sorry to insist on it, it’s just interesting how it still interests people. I’m taking Chinese classes, and one of my teachers asked me, “Oh, so what are you doing currently as a journalist?’ And I said, “Yeah, I’m going to…
She said, “Oh, wow.” After our first meeting, she was like, “What does she look like? More like a man or a woman?”
Is that annoying to you?
It’s just how people are. They’re just curious.
Yeah. Do you think so?
Absolutely. There don’t seem to be many things that annoy you, but maybe you can name two or three.
Yeah. That really get on your nerves easily.
That kind of thing.
Right. Maybe something more significant.
Working with government?
Interesting. Thank you. Just very quickly, to end, you do read a lot apparently. You talked a bit about that, but recently, what did you read?
What do you get out of that?
Very interesting. Anything more leisurable?
For you, it is?
Let’s put it in another way…
Of course, because you always have fun in whatever you’re doing.
Maybe some fiction?
Yeah.
Is it science fiction?
Do you read a lot of science fiction?
You read “The Three‑Body Problem,” I think?
What did you get out of that?
What else do you do? I know you don’t make a difference between living and working. Maybe something else we don’t necessarily know about you, how you spend your time.
