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Using animation to protect sources while telling true stories of gay life in China
The tremendous anti-gay stigma in mainland China has made it difficult for stories about homosexuality to emerge in the Chinese media outlets, even though pockets of tolerance are beginning to emerge.
It&#;s within this climate that Jieqian Zhang, a graphics editor at The Wall Avenue Journal; Fan Fei, a digital graphic producer at Modern Healthcare; and Tailai Zhou, a journalist at Caixin Media Company in China, came together to tell the stories of gay, HIV-positive men in China. In order to protect the identities of those they interviewed, they used animations to create them anonymous. The product is titled ‘Caught in Quicksand’: Gay and HIV-Positive in China, and it was published on ChinaFile , an online magazine published by the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society based on New York City.
Storybench spoke to Zhang about telling stories in ways that protect sources. The interview was conducted in Chinese and translated into English.
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