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May 5th, 2025

Tension: Su Chang | Episode 63

  1. Tension: Su Chang | Episode 63 Brent van Staalduinen 41:45

Brent and Dave chat with Chinese-Canadian author Su Chang about the tension between exploring today’s truth and the cost it has for those who went before, as well as what it means to write in the inspired shadow of a father who is a great writer himself. Su’s journey reminds us that for Chinese emigrants, maintaining Relationships with people still in China — as well as with China itself — is delicate, but is also a story worth telling.

Rejected Central is a human podcast hosted by bestselling novelist Brent van Staalduinen and educator and life-embracer Dave Parkinson. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, follow us online and social media, and let us know what you think. Thanks for listening!

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Brent van Staalduinen Rejected Central Podcast

I am the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels UNTHINKABLE, NOTHING BUT LIFE, BOY, and SAINTS, UNEXPECTED, as well as the story collection CUT ROAD. My stories appear in literary journals on both sides of the Atlantic, and have won the Bristol Short Story Prize, The Fiddlehead Best Fiction Award, the Lush Triumphant Literary Award, and numerous other accolades. A recovering army medic, tree planter, radio announcer, and high school English teacher, I now spend my time podcasting, writing, teaching, and figuring out what it means to be a family man.