From 1984, With Love
From 1984, with Love
Forty years. Two worlds. Countless journeys. One question: How do we keep becoming as the world around us changes?
Born in Xi'an, China, in 1984, Peng Li grew up in a country transforming at extraordinary speed. From his childhood in a rapidly changing city to adventures across North America and Europe, a return to Shanghai at the height of globalization, and eventually a new chapter in Vancouver, his journey unfolded alongside China's opening to the world and an era of unprecedented global connection.
Along the way came unexpected friendships, unforgettable encounters, cultural misunderstandings, and moments of quiet discovery. A snowed-in basement in Canada, an airplane factory in southern France, the people who shaped his understanding of the world-each became part of a larger story about growing up, crossing borders, and finding one's place.
But this is more than a story of leaving one country for another.
As the excitement of constant movement gives way to the responsibilities of family and fatherhood, the author begins to reconsider what it means to belong-not only to a country or a culture, but to the people and places that make a life meaningful.
Written with warmth, curiosity, and gentle humor, From 1984, with Love is a personal memoir set against four decades of profound change.
A story about where we come from, the journeys that change us, and who we become along the way.
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