When I was very young, I realized that my mom was not only my mom but a human person like me. I’m a part of her life as her child— a categorical existence — had any other baby been born, then that person would be her child…and there would be no me. What’s up with the complexity of an individual identity & existence?
When I see my two grandmas, one, a convert to Christianity at the age of 67, a “sudden awakening," and another insisting on guarding her hawthorn trees and ceremonial practice in rural Shandong after my grandpa’s passing, “a consistent faith”… I wish to understand how people come to believe their identities, their realities, and their truth.
Beyond people.
I take more than minutes to think about chicken.
This Chicken is “exercising” its power in a political economy monopoly.
Shandong, China
2021- 2024
Ritual spending behavior in impoverished towns
Inside the Elder-Christian groups in China
With the rise of small groups among elderlies in secondary provinces, I visit church, interview people, and understand how their faith are constructed and popularized.