Melanie Hsieh

Currently

• Studying physics, political philosophy, and WWII at UT Austin
• Don Lavoie Fellow at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University
• Transcribing oral history of China experts living in the US

Previously

• Cycled 4,500 miles across North America to raise funds and awareness for cancer
• Interned at DoS researching China’s S&T talent pipeline
• Participated in Track II dialogue in D.C.
• Skipped the last year of high school in Hong Kong to study Physics in the US

Recent essays:

“If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.” Michel de Montaigne

• The Idealized Men in Yue Opera: “I sculpt masculinity with the body of a woman.”
• Where is my Mapo Tofu?: “Such monotony in flavor makes me wonder if this is really what cooking has become: the flavor of convenience.”
• Proximity: “The uncertainty of intimacy.”