Every story has an address.
61 of 250 stories collected. Tap a dot to meet the person behind it.
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.”
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.”
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.”
Liu Yong
“I've found that meaningfulness rarely requires excess.”
Illia
“I've come to think of this project as more than a professional translation job.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Chiang Kuangzen
“But eventually, each of us has to learn how to dance them in our own way.”