‘Where are you from?’

An unexpected moment during a childhood visit to the Great Wall of China prompts Alexis Chen Johnson to consider the complexity of trying to answer to the question, “Where are you from?” She shares her experience on GBH’s storytelling project, “Stories from the Stage.”

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