Connecting memories.
Keeping sources visible.
From a written account to a connected reading experience.
Here we explain what we selected, how it is organised and what remains uncertain.
01 / ABOUT THE PROJECT
About the project
Mapping Huaqiao Xincun is a small digital oral-history exhibition. Selected excerpts from person-centred written accounts are connected through people, places and themes, allowing readers to encounter different memories of the same spaces.
02 / WHERE THE MATERIAL COMES FROM
Where the material comes from
This exhibition draws on the project-supplied final PDF of New Village Memories: Oral Histories of Guangzhou’s Huaqiao Xincun and accompanying images. Edited Word drafts helped locate passages. The 18 selected Chinese excerpts have been checked against the corresponding final PDF pages. Both printed and PDF page numbers are given; they are not interchangeable. This is a curated selection, not a complete archive.
- 01Written oral histories
- 02Select and verify excerpts
- 03Connect people, places, time and themes
- 04Prepare a curated exhibition
03 / WHO SPEAKS, AND WHO IS REMEMBERED
Who speaks, and who is remembered
A narrator is the person giving the account; a remembered person is someone the account concerns. When Ma Jun recalls his grandmother Hung Sin-nui, Ma Jun remains the narrator. A first-hand recollection can involve other people: mentioning an ancestor does not automatically make it an inherited memory. Classification labels here are editorial and have not undergone independent scholarly coding review.
04 / READING THE MAP
Reading the map
Blocks, lines and node positions are schematic. They do not reconstruct actual streets, distances, directions or historical coordinates. “Approximate” identifies a place without claiming an exact plotted location. “Generalised” uses a street or a collective homes-and-gardens entry instead of a household address. The school hall belongs to Huaqiao Primary School and appears separately to support comparison.
05 / ORIGINALS AND TRANSLATIONS
Originals and translations
Chinese excerpts preserve the final edited written accounts without invented dates or newly polished quotations. Site introductions, theme definitions and editorial notes are separate from testimony. English translations are draft versions for this demo, awaiting human review. Every excerpt offers a comparison in the other language, and site language switching preserves the current page. Name romanisations are consistent display forms and should be confirmed before publication.
06 / PRIVACY AND UNCERTAINTY
Privacy and uncertainty
Only selected material is included; original interview files and internal editorial comments are not provided. Private house numbers and exact coordinates are excluded. Time remains at the level supported by the account, such as “childhood” or “school years”. “Today” means the time of the account, not the present date. Recollections and interpretations are not automatically independently verified facts.
07 / IMAGES, CREDITS AND USE
Images, credits and use
This local demo uses project-supplied paintings and photographs. Yu Ben’s Courtyard (Huaqiao Xincun) (1958, oil on board) and Bauhinia (Huaqiao Xincun) (1960, oil on board) connect art with neighbourhood space. Inclusion of portraits, domestic photographs or residence photographs in the supplied folder does not establish permission for online publication. Publication rights for all images remain pending; unnecessary image metadata has been removed from web copies.
08 / LIMITS AND CORRECTIONS
Limits and corrections
This edition focuses on six narrators, with eight person records, six places and five provisional thematic paths. These numbers describe the exhibition only, not the distribution or importance of the full corpus. It is a local design review with no public correction email or upload form. Please refer issues to the project owner for verification. Publication requires confirmed permissions, reviewed translations and a public correction channel.