TRACING FUJIANESE ROOTS
A visual journey through diaspora and clan memory.
Some left Fujian, crossed the sea, and entered unfamiliar cities, languages, and ways of life. Yet the homeland did not simply recede. It lives in every road taken back, in every phrase of dialect, in the incense of ancestral halls, in the branching lines of genealogies, and in the attachments one generation refuses to forget.
Following these scattered traces, I interviewed overseas Chinese communities, visited ancestral halls across Fujian, and gathered questionnaires, stories, and fragments of family memory. What I hope to present is an emotion stretched by distance, yet not broken by it; and what I hope to ask is why, when this emotion passes to the next generation, "my homeland" slowly becomes "my parents' homeland," and may eventually fade into nothing more than a distant ancestral origin.
