Add to ORKGThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Tairong Zheng (郑泰榕) was born in Nanjing in 1974 to schoolteacher parents, and grew up in China under the effects of the end of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. She met her Chinese-American husband at 25 and followed him back to Houston, where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from the University of Houston. In 2009, she began teaching middle school and high school Chinese at the Awty International School. She now has two children, Kristen and Jonathan,...