Observed arrival · 2026-10-13
One Breath Down — Xuan (Mandy) Hou
A student’s personal site follows her research into unpaid household labor, hand-drawn period zines for girls in rural China, and life as a freediver.
- For
- Readers studying household labor, menstrual education, or student-led research
- Worth noticing
- The page pairs 122 anonymous questionnaires with stamped letters from two Hunan schools; its 9,800-word paper is available on request while under review.
Field notes
The page lays out a research trail rather than only listing achievements: a 9,800-word history paper draws on 1941 garment-union memos photographed by a Cornell archivist, and the paper is available by email while under review. Its zine section documents 122 anonymous questionnaires, two in-person Hunan school sessions, and boxes teachers used independently; an accompanying field report is linked through Zenodo. Two further sections—the research wall and an oral-history archive—are labeled “coming soon.”
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