Hi! I’m a writer, researcher, and organizer based in New York City and Beijing. I am exploring how history can be used to imagine and build new economies amidst technological acceleration.
After I graduated from college, I decided to study for my Master’s degree in China. I kept a monthly newsletter for my lovely friends around the world and far away: on my observations of history, class, transnationalism, labor, and technology. From archival research on remittance letters to family ethnography to living in eco-villages around China and the moral discourse of tea farmers and tea drivers being threatened by technology, I started to realize these observations weren’t simply my own. Instead, I wished to understand the observations, stories, and analyses people have already been documenting.
Welcome to Archive of Conjuncture! This archive is partly inspired by Stuart Hall’s idea that meaning is never fixed, but constructed through power, contingencies, and Grace Lee Boggs’ reminder of the ways we speak of history. They remind me that this homecoming is not individual, but part of a bigger picture of a changing Asia and world. As I am situated in this history, I archive these stories from my perspective; however, more importantly, I hope to document the often neglected stories, discourse, and narratives already articulated by workers, creatives, farmers, and locals, but not archived.
It would be an honor to have you join me on homecoming, and I hope these stories move you as much as they have moved me.
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“History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories – triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally – has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.” - Grace Lee Boggs