Zihan Zhang ‘23
One Day in Her Life: Illustrating Chinese Diaspora Experience
For her project, Zihan produced comics that explored the experiences of members of the Chinese diaspora during the Covid-19 pandemic. Zihan explains that, to prepare for this project, she took a historically deep approach, having studied "various works of history fiction, and cinema representing the Chinese diasporic experience in the US." She hopes the project can "bring more perspectives to people's understanding of Asian and Asian-American identities and view these life stories as relatable instead of foreign and alien." You can watch Zihan’s presentation of her comics and the ideas behind them in this video.