01
Women of Liangshan
DocumentaryA documentary built through field interviews, beginning with Cida’s only kindergarten and the women whose quiet work holds daily life together.
Watch the film →This archive gathers the primary material behind my college applications: what I wrote, what I filmed, what I observed, and the place I keep returning to.
I grew up in Chengdu while returning again and again to Liangshan through family and fieldwork. That movement shaped the questions I ask — and the forms I use to ask them.
Between the city and the village, between policy and the household, between data and lived life.
01 — Selected Work
Four Linked Pieces
Four pieces that keep circling the same questions. A film, a nonfiction essay, a quantitative study, and a shelf of photographs — each one an entrance into the same place.
02
Don’t Come Back
Social NonfictionA nonfiction piece about migration, care, family, and the complicated meanings of a “better life.”
Read the piece →
03
The Economics of Returning
Quantitative Policy ResearchA study of how policy, employment, education, and family shape a young person’s willingness to return.
View the research →
04
Cida, in Fragments
Photo Library · Field JournalOrdinary images that keep Cida from becoming only a topic — roads, meals, relatives, animals, weather.
View the photo library →02 — Field Notes
Between Report and Memory
Brief observations that sit somewhere between reporting and memory.
01
The village’s only kindergarten is both ordinary and symbolic: a place where one can literally watch what staying, leaving and returning might mean for the next generation.
02
Data made migration legible; interviews made it human. The distance between those two is where most of my curiosity lives.
03
Some of the most revealing details are not answers to direct questions, but what appears around them — a meal, a path, a room, a joke, a pause before someone says “home.”
03 — About
The Room Behind the Résumé
Why this archive exists, and what keeps tying its pieces together.
If this site works, it should feel less like a résumé and more like entering the room behind one.
My application already lists activities. This website tries to show the material behind them: the footage, the fieldwork, the pages, and the place that keeps tying them together.
I grew up in Chengdu while returning repeatedly to Liangshan through family and fieldwork. That movement — between city and village, policy and household, data and lived experience — has shaped the questions I ask and the forms I use to ask them.
Forms
Documentary · Social Nonfiction · Field Research
Primary place
Cida, Liangshan, Sichuan
Recurring question
Why do people leave, return, or stay?
This archive
A companion to my college applications
Cida, Liangshan
Thank you for visiting.
Some places become research sites. Others remain family memories. Cida has become both.
Back to top ↑