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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Liu Yong
“I've found that meaningfulness rarely requires excess.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Julia Chin
“You finally understand that your story belongs to you.”
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.”
Wang Changyuan
“Respect tradition—but don't become imprisoned by it.”
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.”
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.”
Zack Zeng
“Zack Zeng reached safety on September 11—and then chose to return because other people had not.”