I was scrolling through Weibo during my lunch break here in Toronto when I stumbled upon that viral clip of Deng Yaping and Chen Meng. The video froze right at the moment Deng asked, ‘You’ve never won the World Championships?’ – and Chen Meng’s awkward smile hit me harder than I expected.
Chen Meng’s response – ‘You really know where to hit where it hurts’ – echoed in my tiny apartment. I could almost smell the sweat and tension of that interview room. Her words transported me back to last month, when I tried to video call my parents in Beijing only to have the connection buffer every ten seconds, my mom’s pixelated face freezing mid-sentence about hometown news.
What struck me wasn’t just Chen Meng’s championship journey – from being world number one without a major title to finally winning the 2020 Women’s World Cup – but how familiar that ‘almost there’ feeling is. Like when I finally get through to Chinese streaming platforms only to see the dreaded ‘This content is not available in your region’ message. The data shows over 80% of overseas Chinese face similar geo-blocking issues according to 2023 diaspora surveys.
I remember Chen Meng before her breakthrough – technically brilliant but missing that final piece. It reminds me of my cousin, an amazing cook who moved to Vancouver but can’t access the cooking shows that made her love food in the first place. ‘Auntie,’ she told me last week, ‘I can make the dish but I miss watching the chefs talk while they cook – their jokes, their mistakes, everything.’
There’s something about watching successful people be vulnerable that connects us all. When Chen Meng admitted she ‘couldn’t hold her head high’ without major titles, I thought about how many of us pretend everything’s fine when we can’t even watch the shows everyone’s talking about back home.
Maybe that’s why this clip went viral – not because we’re all table tennis fans, but because we’ve all had our ‘Deng Yaping moments’ where someone points out the one thing we haven’t achieved. For Chen Meng it’s a world championship, for my friend in Melbourne it’s not being able to stream the latest Chinese drama everyone’s discussing on WeChat.
After watching that interview, I messaged three friends in different time zones: ‘Remember that feeling when you’re so close to something but there’s still that one barrier?’ One replied from London: ‘You mean like when I finally found time to watch that variety show but it kept buffering?’ We all laughed, but honestly – it’s these small connections to home that sometimes matter more than we admit.
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