by Weiwei Xu
You know 叶公好龙 (ye gong hao long)? That’s my comic in a nutshell. 叶公好龙 is a 4-word Chinese idiom based on a story about a dude who loves dragons soooo much he had them painted on all of his walls. Then one day, a real dragon comes down to thank him for his love, and he freaks out because he only liked images of dragons – the real thing was too much for him to handle. I’m him, and the dragon is China – I feel like a fake fan sometimes because I love being the Token Asian in Canada, but China feels alien to me.