Xiaoyan Wang
Xiaoyan Wang
A teenage girl follows her mother deep into the mountains to pick tea, only to realize that silence is not submission, and survival is not surrender. Set in the remote Hakka region of southern China, Cicada’s Clothes is a quiet portrait of women’s labor, displacement, and generational resilience.
A teenage girl follows her mother deep into the mountains to pick tea, only to realize that silence is not submission, and survival is not surrender. Set in the remote Hakka region of southern China, Cicada’s Clothes is a quiet portrait of women’s labor, displacement, and generational resilience.
A teenage girl follows her mother deep into the mountains to pick tea, only to realize that silence is not submission, and survival is not surrender. Set in the remote Hakka region of southern China, Cicada’s Clothes is a quiet portrait of women’s labor, displacement, and generational resilience.
Background & Inspiration
Filmed over the course of five years, this project brought me into close contact with tea-picking women in the Yao minority region. Many of them were Vietnamese-Chinese migrants, and their strength and stories deeply moved me. My role as the daughter mirrored my own coming-of-age experience, and helped me understand how labor and womanhood intersect in unseen ways.
Filmed over the course of five years, this project brought me into close contact with tea-picking women in the Yao minority region. Many of them were Vietnamese-Chinese migrants, and their strength and stories deeply moved me. My role as the daughter mirrored my own coming-of-age experience, and helped me understand how labor and womanhood intersect in unseen ways.
Background & Inspiration
Filmed over the course of five years, this project brought me into close contact with tea-picking women in the Yao minority region. Many of them were Vietnamese-Chinese migrants, and their strength and stories deeply moved me. My role as the daughter mirrored my own coming-of-age experience, and helped me understand how labor and womanhood intersect in unseen ways.
