Xiangjun Liu

I am a master’s student in Communication for Development and Social Change at Temple University, with a background in Chinese Language and Literature from Beijing Normal University. I have worked as an intern journalist at Beijing News and the Family Biography Editorial Department, where I gained experience in in-depth reporting, oral history, and biographical writing.

As a researcher, journalist, and digital storyteller, I explore people, memory, social change, and inner life. My work mainly asks how private lives carry historical, cultural, and emotional truths, and how inner life and collective imagination can reshape the social world.

My projects move across Chinese family biography, women’s literary narratives in Elena Ferrante’s works, Chinatown activism, homelessness in Philadelphia, and Zen meditation. In these spaces, I see a form of hope that can nourish personal growth and give rise to social change. I also explore how AI-assisted tools can turn ideas into digital storytelling projects and creative products.

Through research, journalism, digital creation, and contemplative practice, I hope to build a practice that engages with reality, sustains the self, and responds to the questions of our time.