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Ancestral Landscapes

Notes from places connected to family history, held less by what survives in writing than by what the buildings themselves have kept. An ancestral hall, a river renamed on an old chart, a house that outlasted everyone who lived in it.

Incense smoke in Hanjiang

2 August 2026  ·  Travel & Place

Incense smoke in Hanjiang

Photographs from the ancestral hall and a reflection on why ritual is often understood only after leaving home.

The map that renamed a river

17 August 2026  ·  Writing & Research

The map that renamed a river

A note on Pedro Reinel, Rio Formoso, and the strange feeling of finding Batu Pahat on a sixteenth-century Portuguese chart.

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