Ways of Seeing

Li Jin I want to begin by explaining why I came up here carrying this basket. I’ve been carrying it for about thirty years now. Back when...

Shen Lieyi I’m a sculptor, and today I’d like to talk about two professions that seem unrelated — the cook and the artist. A cook’s daily...

Shuang Xuetao Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Shuang Xuetao. I’m from Shenyang. I write fiction. The title “Winter Bones”  has been...

He once said that for a long time, he had been doing things that didn’t quite fit the expectations of society — things that sounded...

He told me that because the earlier speakers had finished faster than expected, he had ten extra minutes to talk, so, as he put it, “I’ll...

Tianshu Pan He told me that he wanted to share, on that platform, the story of how he came to study anthropology and eventually make a...

She told me she had been wondering what kind of mindset she should have for a talk like this — what kind of state she should be in....

I think independent hobbies will ultimately form an independent character. This topic is a bit big, but I think Chinese people in the...

He said he was currently responsible for two projects — one, the National History Writing Contest for Middle School Students; the other,...

He began by talking about a post that had recently gone viral online — its title was provocative: “Ten Online Hookup Havens Every Loser...

She began by admitting she hadn’t expected to feel nervous. Watching Ding Ding Zhang speak earlier, she thought she would be fine. But as...

I remember the moment he stood on stage and said he felt nervous. He said it very directly, that standing there under the lights while...

When he began, he said he was very glad to be there, and that he would give this talk in English. If he were introducing his website, he...

I’ve always been the kind of person who looks for patterns. Whenever something happens, my instinct is to find the logic behind it. But...

When he was still very, very young, he once came to Beijing — the capital — to receive an award. That award, he said, changed the entire...

Last year, when I was walking through the streets of Kashgar in Xinjiang, I took a few photographs. One shows two ordinary Uyghur men,...

I remember him introducing himself simply as a middle-school Chinese teacher—the kind of weary, plain-faced man students meet every day...

He told me that what he wanted to focus on was how to promote what he called a revolution in housing—how to truly change the way our...

He told me he was twenty-eight years old and that he had been running his own business for about eight years. He began his story from the...

I’ve come to realize that what we are witnessing today is a profound disqualification of human life. The degeneration of our society is,...