Last Tuesday night, my phone buzzed with a WeChat message from my cousin in Vancouver. It was 3 AM there, and she’d sent a crying emoji followed by: ‘QQ Music won’t let me play Yao Jingyuan’s new song! It says ‘not available in your region’ – I just want to hear something that reminds me of home.’
I could almost hear her sigh through the screen. This wasn’t the first time – last month, she missed the finale of her favorite variety show because Youku blocked access from Canada. The week before, she couldn’t watch the new historical drama everyone was discussing on Weibo.
What hit me hardest was when she told me about video-calling her parents back in Shanghai. ‘Mom was humming this new song from The Big Band,’ she said. ‘I couldn’t recognize it because I haven’t been able to watch the latest episodes. It made me feel… disconnected.’
Here’s the thing they don’t tell you about living abroad: it’s not just about missing food or family gatherings. It’s these small cultural moments – the shared excitement over a new song release, the watercooler talk about last night’s episode, the memes from the latest variety show that everyone except you understands.
I remember visiting her in Vancouver last summer. We were driving through Stanley Park when she tried to play Wang Jie’s classic ‘An Hui’ from QQ Music. The loading circle just kept spinning until the error message popped up. She ended up playing a low-quality YouTube version someone had uploaded, with someone coughing in the background during the chorus.
‘It’s not the same,’ she said quietly, and I knew she wasn’t just talking about the audio quality.
The irony? Yao Jingyuan’s new song ‘Following the Light’ is literally about overcoming barriers and chasing dreams – which is exactly what many overseas Chinese are doing thousands of miles from home. The lyrics talk about ‘breaking through boundaries’ and ‘turning thorns into poetry’ – pretty fitting for anyone who’s ever faced a geo-block message.
Maybe you’re reading this from London, Sydney, or San Francisco. Maybe you’ve also stared at that spinning buffer circle while trying to watch the latest episode of Sisters Who Make Waves. Or maybe you’ve given up entirely on trying to access Chinese music platforms from abroad.
Here’s what I told my cousin after she sent that midnight message: ‘Remember when we were kids and had to wait for those bootleg VCDs of Chinese dramas to arrive at the Asian grocery store? At least now there are better solutions.’
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