About Us
关于我们
China’s modern history is vast, contested, and complex. Much of the evidence of China’s recent past exists only in the memories of those who lived through it. Their recollections help us to see how people lived, how national affairs affected the individual, and how personal experience may diverge from popular stories. Such materials are priceless but perishable, lost by thousands each day to death and old age. Founded in 2024, the Chinese Memory Archive aims to preserve as many living memories as possible, with a particular focus on long-form interviews. People involved with the Chinese Memory Archive have a diversity of political and cultural beliefs, but the archive itself does not take a political position.
中国的近代史 宏大、充满争议且复杂。许多关于中国近代的见证，仅存于亲历者的记忆之中。他们的回忆让我们得以窥见普通人的生活轨迹、国家大事对个体的影响，以及以及个人的经历与广为流传的故事有哪些分歧之处。这些记忆材料弥足珍贵且容易消逝，每天都有成千上万的记忆随生命逝去而永久消失。"有生记忆"创立于2024年，致力于通过深度访谈等形式，尽可能保存这些鲜活的记忆。参与“有生记忆”的人拥有不同的政治理念和文化信仰，但本机构并不持有任何政治立场。
Our Mission
我们的使命
To improve the understanding of China’s modern history by collecting and presenting the memories of those who experienced it first-hand.
通过收集并呈现亲历者的记忆，增进世人对中国现代历史的理解。
T.A. Frank
Founder
创始人
T.A. is a Seattle-based writer and editor who has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and he has worked in editorial roles at The New Republic, Washington Monthly, and the Los-Angeles-based Zocalo Public Square, of which he was the editor from 2011 to 2014. He a 2000 graduate of Columbia University, where he studied Chinese history, and he has lived and worked in China. He takes a particular interest in the early years of the People’s Republic of China.
T.A. 是一位常驻西雅图的作家兼编辑，曾为《纽约时报》、《名利场》、《华盛顿邮报》、《纽约杂志》、《洛杉矶时报》等媒体撰稿，并先后在《新共和》杂志、《华盛顿月刊》及洛杉矶智库"佐卡罗公共广场"（2011至2014年担任主编）担任编辑职务。他2000年毕业于哥伦比亚大学，主修中国历史专业，曾在中国生活和工作，对中华人民共和国建国初期历史有着特殊的研究兴趣。
LUNA DING
丁露娜
Co-founder and director
联合创始人兼总监
Luna, native of Henan, is a 2015 graduate of Chongqing Normal University, where she studied broadcast journalism. She has lived in the United States since 2017 and has worked as a Chinese language teacher in Bellevue and as a broadcaster at Chinese Radio Seattle. She has also participated in documentary film production.
露娜，河南人，2015年毕业于重庆师范大学广播电视新闻专业，2017年起旅居美国，曾任贝尔维尤市中文教师与西雅图中文电台播音员，曾参与纪录片制作。