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"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels."

This is what I've made a career of as a marketer and editor for startups and corporations, taking brand stories and recreating them in another language. Some call it localization, some call it transcreation.

I call it good branding.

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Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Vickie Wang is a bilingual writer and stand-up comedian fluent in Mandarin Chinese, English, and American cultural references. She's lived in Asia, Scandinavia, and the good ol' American Midwest.

She's relocating to New York, New York, and is currently looking for a content, communications, or editorial role in the city.

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Photo by Jonas Leupe on Unsplash Friends visiting me in Shanghai have often asked me: How do you live without [insert one of many apps services banned in China]? What do you do!? The 1.3 billion+ deprived of Netflix and Google make do with many homegrown alternatives. Thanks to China's strict internet censorship and protectionist policies, many of the services we would consider “universal” are off-limits in China. This prevented the market from being flooded with global compe

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