
Core Areas
Ethnographer
It took 3 years to travel deep into the remote mountain villages in southwest China, measuring the land with one's feet and documenting the oral history that is on the verge of vanishing.

Collector
More than 293 ancient manuscripts on the verge of being lost have been successfully rescued and digitized.
Personal exclusive collection

Interpreter
Decipher and translate the ancient ethnic script, transform the long-buried texts into understandable knowledge, and build a communication bridge that transcends time and space

About Me

My Gelao and Zhuang heritage showed me the silence left by lost stories, driving me to forge connections, not just preserve relics.
As a fieldworker, I record oral histories in China's Southwest mountains. As a scholar, I place these oral histories and ancient texts into dialogue, seeking to reconstruct the narratives that time has fragmented. I use digital tools to revive 293 ancient manuscripts, believing true scholarship is the dialogue between the dust of the field and the light of the digital—a space where past and future connect.

Manuscript from Southern Zhuang People

Interviewed
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People
1st High Schooler Presented at SfAA Annual Meeting 293+ Manuscripts Collected 3-Year Fieldwork Across SW China
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