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Daniel Tam-Claiborne’s Biography

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Daniel Tam-Claiborne is an international development professional and bilingual writer who has worked with nonprofits, philanthropic organizations, and the private sector on programs aimed at reducing poverty, enhancing equity, and promoting sustainable development in emerging economies across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. He has spent over four years living and working in China—including at the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation and the Yale Young Global Scholars Program—and serves on …

Daniel Tam-Claiborne’s Journalist Portfolio

'Finding Yingying': Chinese pain and the empathy deficit - SupChina

'Finding Yingying': Chinese pain and the empathy deficit - SupChina

The disappearance of and search for Yingying Zhang is the subject of "Finding Yingying," a documentary by Jen…

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Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

The stories we tell about ourselves say a lot about how we'd like to be seen. Here's mine: Before it was the …

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The Good Nurses of Busia County

The Good Nurses of Busia County

When Aditi and I arrived in Busia, dust-splayed and weather-beaten on the shared backseat of a boda boda, we …

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Henry's End

Henry's End

It was the place where, for the duration of a meal, we could pretend to be something we weren’t. My dad could…

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As an Asian American Jew, I never felt like I belonged. Then I fasted for Yom Kippur in China Original

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By Daniel Tam-Claiborne
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The first time I fasted for Yom Kippur wasn't with my family or at synagogue, but in the small rural Chinese town of Taigu, 400 miles west of Beijing. Anne and I were two of the six foreign English teachers at the university of nearly 20,000 students, and the only Jews for miles. When she brought up the idea of fasting for Yom Kippur, I was skeptical. "What is that, like, not eating?" I asked. A willful denial of food seemed unlike any Chinese tradition I could imagine.
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What Happens When You Have A Kid... And Then You Regret It?

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By Daniel Tam-Claiborne
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Moments after my daughter’s birth, I was in tears, though not the kind I was expecting. My wife, Meghan, had just endured a grueling 18-hour labor, and I was standing at the foot of her bed as the doctor retrieved a ruddy, shrieking alien from between her legs and placed it in her arms. “She’s certainly vigorous,” the doctor said, her voice overly upbeat. “At least you won’t have to worry about her not communicating her needs.” Also Read: I Took My Appearance For Granted.
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The First Book: Daniel Tam-Claiborne

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By Daniel Tam-Claiborne
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The Author: Daniel Tam-ClaiborneThe Book: Transplants(Regalo Press, 2025) The Elevator Pitch: A lyrical exploration of love, power, and freedom through the intertwined lives of two young women who yearn to survive in a world upended. *** The Rumpus: Where did the idea of your book come from? Daniel Tam-Claiborne: The first inkling for the novel came over fifteen years ago, when I accepted a fellowship to teach English at a university in rural Shanxi Province, China, right after undergrad.
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