‘My mother tried to archive my father. She used floppy disks.’
So begins Yangyang Cheng’s latest Science and China column for The China Project, in which she attempts to remember her father, who died 20 years ago when she was young.
As always, Yangyang’s stories are infused with weighty questions. In this piece, she asks: How do we preserve what is gone? What can be preserved? What deserves to be?
