The journey, without 3D
From Shenzhen, through different cities, and home again.
01 · Shenzhen
I taught myself photography in ninth grade in Shenzhen. I became a signed photographer with Visual China and held a solo photography exhibition at an art museum in Nanshan District.
View early photography ↗The camera began to carry me farther.
Next stop: Kuala Lumpur02 · Kuala Lumpur
City photography.
Photography archive ↗03 · Singapore
The photography journey continued in Singapore.
Photography archive ↗From the coast to the mountains.
The 3D journey uses a schematic flight toward Lijiang.04 · Lijiang
I joined a documentary team in Lijiang, working across A-camera, B-camera, supplementary footage, and interviews for a film on Dongba papermaking and Dongba script.
A wooden pounder rises and falls inside a stone basin filled with damp, fibrous material. A wider view shows a long wooden lever in a workshop, with people standing beside it.
A man wearing a red shirt and a light-colored vest gestures while holding a rope. The on-screen subtitles explain that fewer strokes leave longer fibers, while more strokes make them finer.
The view returns to the pounder. Several people take turns using the lever while holding the rope; close-ups show feet on the wooden mechanism. The final shot shows a person holding a small bowl over a larger bowl of wet, fibrous material beside the stone basin.
Ten conversations in Lijiang helped shape my interest in cultural preservation. They formed a question; they were not a population survey or evidence for the paper.
The filming ended.
The question did not.
05 · Beijing
Beijing was another stop in the city photography journey.
Photography archive ↗Across the ocean.
A schematic flight in the 3D journey. New York ahead.06 · New York
The questions brought me home.
Photography archive ↗Across the ocean.
Back to Shenzhen.
07 · Shenzhen, again
The Lijiang documentary led to a question about cultural preservation. Back in Shenzhen, that question developed into independent, literature-based research on AI, Dongba script, and Naxi cultural heritage.
A professor at Fudan University taught me foundational AI. I wrote the paper independently.
Formally published · Sole author · Literature-based
The research discusses OCR, image restoration, immersive interpretation, and AI chatbots, alongside cultural ownership, access, and reliability.
It reports no field study, preservation system trained or deployed by me, or model performance data of my own.
Read the paper PDF ↗ (opens in a new tab)Software
Two separate study problems led to two tools.
Listen → Write → Compare → Correct
From my own intensive-listening routine: one place for playback, dictation, comparison, and correction. With my school STEM team, I contributed to ideation, development, and the funding pitch. Auraline is available to every student at my school.
Read the Auraline story ↗
Source → Cards → Study → Quiz → Progress
I developed an AI study platform that turns topics, notes, and files into question-and-answer cards. Preview and save cards, organize decks, rate recall as Again, Fuzzy, or Known, take quizzes, and track mistakes and progress.
Read the FlowCards story ↗Open FlowCards ↗
I play badminton for the force of a full-power smash and the pride of real competition. I cycle for freedom.
