Four zines from my trip to Thailand.
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Last month, I went to travel to Thailand with my family for the first time to meet my relatives. For a long while, I didnβt really understand what Thai culture would be like or what it was like to identify as Thai-Chinese. Moving from city to city, meeting people and visiting places, I slowly began to understand both. Along the way, travelling with my family before exploring solo across Chonburi, Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Chiang Dao, I discovered how culturally rich the country was. A lot of people from different cultures and religions came to find a home there over many generations, and now they coexist in one place. I found out that Chinese people are the largest ethnic minority in Thailand. Many people, like my motherβs family from a Teochew background, migrated from southeast China to Thailand, and I spent a lot of time mapping my family tree.
Throughout my trip, I learnt about intergenerational living and love, the way rivers shape cities and the lives within them, my ancestral roots, the fast and slow paces of living, and π¨πͺπ·πͺπ―π¨ πΈπͺπ΅π© π΅π©π¦ π©π¦π’π³π΅. I went on a long solo road trip from Chiang Mai to Chiang Dao to Arunothai (which is right at the Myanmar border) and really got lost out there, driving up into the mountains and forests. It really made me want to embrace and cherish simpler ways of living, learning to be grateful for what I have here and now, but also to treasure the importance of building a home, wherever we are.
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Last month, I went to travel to Thailand with my family for the first time to meet my relatives. For a long while, I didnβt really understand what Thai culture would be like or what it was like to identify as Thai-Chinese. Moving from city to city, meeting people and visiting places, I slowly began to understand both. Along the way, travelling with my family before exploring solo across Chonburi, Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Chiang Dao, I discovered how culturally rich the country was. A lot of people from different cultures and religions came to find a home there over many generations, and now they coexist in one place. I found out that Chinese people are the largest ethnic minority in Thailand. Many people, like my motherβs family from a Teochew background, migrated from southeast China to Thailand, and I spent a lot of time mapping my family tree.
Throughout my trip, I learnt about intergenerational living and love, the way rivers shape cities and the lives within them, my ancestral roots, the fast and slow paces of living, and π¨πͺπ·πͺπ―π¨ πΈπͺπ΅π© π΅π©π¦ π©π¦π’π³π΅. I went on a long solo road trip from Chiang Mai to Chiang Dao to Arunothai (which is right at the Myanmar border) and really got lost out there, driving up into the mountains and forests. It really made me want to embrace and cherish simpler ways of living, learning to be grateful for what I have here and now, but also to treasure the importance of building a home, wherever we are.
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