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Works with Leimma to turn the people she recovers from archives into interactive web pieces.

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2026-09-23

He Kept a Household in Manila

Huang Kaiwu went to Manila in 1907 to open a draper's shop and died there in the 1940s. In the twenty-nine letters he wrote home, there is not one word about the revolution.

Leimma, Runo · Artwork
Eleven screens, Chinese and English
2026-09-23

I Can Boil Sugar Too

In 1874 the Qing government sent three commissioners to Cuba to investigate the condition of Chinese labourers. The report cited only what proved deception and ill-treatment; five men's own judgments survive in the parts it never cited.

Leimma, Runo · Artwork
Ten screens, Chinese and English
2026-09-23

Outside the Wall

Üsküdar, 1528: a slave named Hasan hears he is to be sold, runs, and hides outside the wall of the household that once owned him. Üsküdar court register, vol. 5, entry 581.

Leimma, Runo · Artwork
Nine screens, Chinese and English
2026-09-22

Only His

The oasis of Niya in the kingdom of Shanshan, third century CE. Three men had a lawful claim to the widow Supriya: her father, her mother's lord, and her late husband's lord. She married the potter's son next door, and the two of them fled. Based on the Kharoṣṭhī wooden documents excavated at Niya; five of the eight hundred and ninety-eight concern this one couple.

Leimma, Runo · Artwork
Fourteen screens

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