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diff --git a/_posts/2020-03-21-new-projects-dissertation-returnees.md b/_posts/2020-03-21-new-projects-dissertation-returnees.md
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+---
+layout: post
+title:  "Two new projects: dissertation and Returnees 海归"
+date: 2020-03-21 16:00:00 +0000
+categories: ['projects']
+summary: Including a collaboration with writer Hengtee Lim.
+---
+
+Hello from locked down London, in the spring of COVID-19, 2020. I hope that
+you're all healthy and limiting social content while waiting for things to
+improve out there. With everything that's going on, it's been a challenge to
+stick to any kind of normal routine, especially to someone as
+organisationally-challenged as I am.
+
+During the lockdown, I've decided to dedicate a couple of hours every day to
+long-neglected personal projects, and the first thing I've done was to finish
+preparing two projects that have been on the backburner for a while.
+
+## Dissertation
+
+{% figure caption: "Wan Ying and Snow Ying, from “Girls”, 2017 © Luo Yang" %}
+[![Wan Ying and Snow Ying, from “Girls”, 2017 © Luo
+Yang](/assets/images/projects/portraiture-common-ground/14-luo.jpg)](/projects/portraiture-common-ground)
+{% endfigure %}
+
+The first project is the dissertation that I wrote for my MA Photography degree
+at the Royal College of Art in 2018. It talks briefly about the post-war history
+of photography in Japan and in China, and explores the work of two
+photographers, Nagashima Yurie and Luo Yang, and the connections between their
+two styles.
+
+It's called [Luo Yang × Nagashima Yurie: Contemporary East Asian photography and
+the portraiture of the common ground](/projects/portraiture-common-ground).
+Check it out!
+
+---
+
+## Returnees 海归
+
+{% figure caption: "“I used to fight with my parents all the time about
+politics, but now, having been abroad, I understand that China has a specific
+path it needs to follow.”" %}
+[![From Returnees 海归](/assets/images/projects/returnees/returnees_06.jpg)](/projects/returnees)
+{% endfigure %}
+
+[The second project](/projects/returnees) is a weird one. In the summer of 2018,
+I was in Beijing, interviewing and photographing Chinese citizens who had just
+returned home after a long time abroad. I took many photos, and recorded over 20
+hours of interviews, but after I came back, the project got stuck: I didn't have
+enough material to produce something meaningful -- the story was just not told
+the way it deserved to.
+
+This eventually led to a collaboration with a writer friend, [Hengtee
+Lim](https://twitter.com/hent03), who graciously wrote a short story to match
+the photographs and the interviews. The story is called “Different Worlds”, and
+it's included in this project alongside the photographs.
+
+(Hengtee has a collection of short stories, “[Something Like
+Hope](https://www.snippetsbooks.com/)” that would make for a fantastic read in
+these complicated times. You should get a copy!)
+
+The other thing that's included alongside the photographs is quotes taken from
+the interviews. The quotes are included under pictures, but out of context:
+those things were not necessarily said by the person in the picture.
+
+---
+
+I hope you enjoy these two projects. Please stay safe out there, and wash your hands :)
diff --git a/_projects/returnees.html b/_projects/returnees.html
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     The photographs are presented here paired with a short story titled
-    "Different Worlds", by writer <a href="https://twitter.com/hent03">Hengtee
+    “Different Worlds”, by writer <a href="https://twitter.com/hent03">Hengtee
     Lim</a>. His book, "<a href="https://www.snippetsbooks.com/">Something
     Like Hope</a>", is out now.
   </blockquote>

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