I was scrolling through my Weibo feed at a local café in Toronto when I saw the headline: China had just won two gold medals at the Rowing World Championships in Shanghai. My first thought? ‘I need to watch this now.’
The post showed Zou Jiaqi and Fu Ling winning the women’s lightweight double sculls, followed by Sun Man and Li Yawei in the men’s event. But when I clicked the video from CCTV Sports, all I got was a spinning loading icon and then… nothing. Again.
You know that feeling when you’re excited to watch something from back home, and technology just says ‘nope’? I could almost hear the cheers from the Shanghai crowd, but my screen was silent. It’s like being at a party but stuck outside the window.
I remember watching rowing events with my dad when I was younger. He’d point at the screen saying ‘See how synchronized they are? That’s teamwork.’ Now here I am, thousands of miles away, missing another piece of home because of some digital wall.
What made it worse was seeing my friends’ reactions in the comments – people actually in China who could watch everything smoothly. One comment read ‘The moment they crossed the finish line, I cried!’ Meanwhile, I’m here refreshing my browser like it’s 2005.
It’s not just about sports. It’s those variety shows my mom recommends, the new dramas everyone’s talking about, the music that suddenly becomes popular back home. We overseas Chinese have this weird FOMO (fear of missing out) that hits different when it’s about cultural moments from home.
After thirty minutes of trying different browsers and clearing caches (you know the drill), I finally gave up and called my cousin in Beijing. ‘Just describe it to me,’ I said. She laughed and spent ten minutes painting the victory with words instead of pixels.
So here’s my question to fellow overseas Chinese: What’s the one thing you recently couldn’t watch from back home because of these restrictions? For me, it was seeing our athletes stand on that podium. For you, maybe it’s that new show everyone’s binge-watching?
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