Every story has an address.
61 of 250 stories collected. Tap a dot to meet the person behind it.
Charlie Zhang
“Integration doesn't mean forgetting where you came from.”
Lu Hong
“I never let anyone else's judgment of me become my judgment of myself.”
Benji
“My story, in the end, isn't really about any single identity I settled into.”
Chang Xinli
“Strength and softness were never opposites in me. They were always the same thing.”
Wu Yanni
“Past achievement doesn't lock you into a future you no longer want.”
Wu Di
“It's to help a kid become someone who's ready for whatever comes after that list stops mattering.”
Han Xiu
“That documentation became the thread I pulled to try to find my way back to the country of my birth.”
Dr. Gao Mingyi
“She wanted music to give me cultural and personal freedom.”
Enya
“I don't think of what I gave up as a simple loss.”
Annie
“I trust the arrangement we've built, even when it strains under the weight of distance and misunderstanding.”
Lisa
“The role has demanded real strength from me, more than I knew I had.”
Rebecca F. Kuang
“I try hard not to let early success curdle into complacency.”
Scott
“You need a big heart to hold a bigger world than the one you started in.”
Yang Xin
“My only real regret is that there isn't enough time left to learn everything I'd still like to know.”
Li Ying
“Watching my mother's retirement has taught me almost as much as watching her perform.”
Yan Li
“Repairing is always harder than destruction, and always worth doing anyway.”
Xiang Xiang
“Both people must be willing to engage and adapt.”
Dr. Li Changyu
“But what makes a life worth solving for, in the end, isn't the cases closed or the honors received.”
Wu Qingyun
“I also believe self-respect is foundational to earning respect from others.”
Sandy Chen
“I reject outright the idea that handling guns makes a woman less feminine.”
Liu Yong
“I've found that meaningfulness rarely requires excess.”
Pam Yang
“I think there's real value in being honest about the trial and error underneath any fulfilling path — mine included.”
Hu Xiaotian
“I was trying to survive the days honestly, and to make sense of them on paper in whatever way I could.”
Illia
“I've come to think of this project as more than a professional translation job.”
Dr. Chang C. Chen
“There's no opting out of that reality, only a choice between facing it prepared or facing it blind.”
Yang Ling
“I say it because those years, brutal as they were, built something into me that never left.”
Xie Guofang
“Traditional opera isn't something I perform.”
Dr. Wang Yunren
“Exposure to a crisis at this scale gives you the insight and resilience no classroom can teach.”
Liu Xuan
“It just requires showing up, staying humble, and being willing to keep learning, one ordinary day at a time.”
Luo Dayou
“What's carried me through those stretches is curiosity, more than discipline or habit.”
Lin Huijia
“My happiness tends to be in mundane places — enjoying a simple meal, completing an ordinary daily task well.”
Scott Chen
“If you don't see yourself as an outsider, most people won't see you as one either.”
Sheu Fangyi
“Loneliness was once my biggest fear; now it is my greatest strength.”
Hu Yinmeng
“If I had to name the single force that keeps people from evolving, it's fear.”
Jennifer Lo
“That openness is what actually gets you through.”
Cai Erping
“If I had to leave one thought behind, it would be this: life's brilliance isn't in achievement, it's in mindfulness.”
Amy Chen
“And it is the dignity with which we allowed ourselves—and others—to say goodbye.”
Julia Chin
“You finally understand that your story belongs to you.”
Liang Dongping
“The less attached I became to possessions, the freer I felt.”
Su Chao-Pin
“Audiences may accept the impossible if the human feelings are real.”
Dr. Shu
“The longest relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”
Mei Jiangzhong
“A parent's responsibility is not to create a copy of himself.”
Li Lu
“You can carry grief and still allow yourself happiness.”
Huang Jingyi
“Sometimes adaptation is how identity travels.”
Zhao Shuxia and Zhao Shumin
“And because, wherever life has taken us, literature has always been a way of finding our way home.”
Yang Fangyi
“A mother has to learn who each child actually is.”
Wang Changyuan
“Respect tradition—but don't become imprisoned by it.”
Lu Mingjun
“Illness made ordinary days more valuable.”
Xiao Shengxiong
“Cancer taught me something else: sometimes strength means admitting that you cannot carry everything yourself.”
Wang Shi
“Looking back, those ordinary days are the story.”
Yue Hua
“All I could do was play each one as well as I knew how, and when it was time, learn to let it go.”
Yang Zhengming
“And above all, I wanted to find my way back to my mother.”
Master Shengyan
“A person can love deeply without trying to possess.”
Mary Chang
“Sometimes healing begins when we discover that we do not have to carry the pain alone.”
Jennifer Zhu
“She only knew that when the music started, she wanted to dance.”
Lo Peishan
“The difference is that I have finally learned that I am one of the people I am responsible for caring for.”
Chen Kailun and Xu Shuyuan
“The opportunity lies in what the crisis forces us to see.”
Baw family
“And she taught us that a difficult life and a beautiful life are not opposites.”
Chiang Kuangzen
“But eventually, each of us has to learn how to dance them in our own way.”
Betty Ann Ong
“And her name deserves to be remembered.”
Zack Zeng
“Zack Zeng reached safety on September 11—and then chose to return because other people had not.”