Victor Lenas Jacobsson

(Text / Yang Shiyang)

How many people have spent their entire lives trying to escape the shackles of their original identity - their family of origin, their homeland, or their original particular culture. People go to the distance and firmly refuse to look back. This kind of escape sometimes...

When I was very young, I moved with my parents from the mountains in the southwest to Jiangsu, and left my familiar friends. In the new environment, my tone of voice, dress and way of looking at things were all out of place. I was born in the mountains. Blocked, shabby, ignorant. In school, because...