Adapted from a talk and Q&A given by Ginger Duan, founder of Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet, at a June 2026 conference in Dharamshala at the International conference on Sino-Tibet Relations. Who I Am I am Chinese, not Taiwanese or Hong Konger. I was born and raised in mainland China. I grew up in Yunnan, an ethnically diverse province bordering Tibet. I was surrounded by people from many different cultures and religions, so I learned early that different communities see the wo