last month I joined a Chinese reading club online+offline in London marking the 30th anniversary of UN fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995. We read Reflections & Resonance (《女性的反响》), a collection of personal essays/letters published in 1995 by Chinese women who

Yes it’s me :( If you know of cool opportunities, please be in touch!

I spent two months working on a long-form story (in Chinese) in Ruili, a small city bordering Myanmar that has been battered by China’s strictest lockdowns and kept its border crossings closed from 2020 to 2022.
I stayed there for nearly a month,

i’ve always been thinking about new storytelling format on substack, and this is a tryout.

I recently visited a local “ghost market” in Kunming, Yunnan, and created this short visual story about the place and its people. Read more here: likeawildvine.substack.com/p/fun-stack-...

Qiu Xigui, who hand-wrote the first paleography textbook I ever used, has died at 90.

hello, my bluesky friends. Between all the news about trump and tariffs, I’d like to share my substack called “wild vine” here.
After freelancing, I’ve traveled a lot in China this year from Hubei to Shanghai, Yunnan, Guangdong, Sichuan, meeting a wide range of strangers, friends, and scholars.