Tone Deaf in Saigon

A young Chinese teacher in a Vietnamese international school navigates cultural clashes, postcolonial tensions, and unexpected friendships—while teaching Mandarin tones to unruly expats and curious locals. Through humor and heartbreak, she challenges Western-centric views, offering a rare, unfiltered Chinese perspective on modern Asia’s cultural fusion.If you have known the silence of the margins, the sting of being unheard, the weight of others’ fears twisted into your name—if you have ever burned with restless longing, dared to grasp the hand of chance, or stood alone against the vastness of an indifferent world—then her story will break you, and remake you, one trembling breath at a time.