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Break the Walls, and Set Me Free to the way to Find My Own
Beijing, as the capital city of China, embraced more than 5000 years history. Nowadays development in Beijing combines its traditional aesthetics and modern senses together to enlarge the functionality of the capital city. There are 21,700,000 people living in this city, and 37.9% of them are from outside Beijing, based on Sohu News. Recent decades, many people come to Beijing for better work and study opportunities, and in China, people called it “北漂” (Bei Piao), which means “drift to the north”. With contribution from these drifters, Beijing now is a forest of cement, and people are locked into these boxes. Jia Han was someone who used to live in these boxes.
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Beijing at night
Jia moved to Beijing when she was graduated from high school at her age of 18, and she was getting into the Communication University of China to study her bachelor degree. When she graduated, she was luckily recruited by the China Central Television, which is a dream job for many people. However, nobody knows that how stressful Jia’s work it, especially in a situation of full of competitors. Jia said that working in Beijing would really make me die someday from overwork. Especially in the field of communication and media, your boss wants you to be ready at any times because the news would never wait for you. After few years of the heavy load of work in the CCTV, Jia decided to change to the field of public relation. She was happy with her new job because the new job is relatively flexible and less stressful, but her family and the society thought that she should really think about her marriage, which is described as a “life event” in Chinese culture. Once again, she thought she could really get rid of constraints from these “boxes”, but she was disappointed. Starting at that time, her willingness to go to see the world outside embarks.
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China Central Television at Beijing, where Jia worked
“I was not wrong”, Jia said, “it is the society who gets ill”. Indeed, it is very common in Chinese social value that females should get married when they reach the suitable ages. If a female would not do so, invisible pressure would come from her family, friends, and society. Jia thought her life should not be constrained by social values that she does not agree. She does not want to see herself living like a 60-years-old when she is 20. She wants her soul to be set free to go somewhere she has never travelled, and after her careful consideration, she decided to continue her study of Master degree at the University of Ottawa.
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Jia was graduated from the University of Ottawa in 2016.
She felt frustrated when she experienced an economic difficulty since her job in Beijing would bring here very considerable income compares to her friends around. However, Once she thinks about to take good care of her free soul, she would never look back. She currently applied her identity of the permanent resident since she enjoyed her life here in Canada. She said she would be always on her way to somewhere has not been explored. So where is her next stop? Nobody knows?