Zhao Zhao Wo
About Zhao Zhao Wo 找找我
Zhao Zhao Wo is an international adoptee-led grassroots initiative seeking to crowdsource, preserve, and share digitized photos of our early lives in China from roughly 1990 onwards.
We are collecting photographs of Social Welfare Institutes, orphanages, foster families, and adoption groups taken in China with the aim of connecting adoptees who unknowingly crossed paths and providing adoptees with the possibility of finding previously unknown images of ourselves. By compiling our photos based on locality and viewing them together, we can also better construct an understanding of our former social and built surroundings. Photos from return visits further complete the picture.
As our photos from China gather dust in boxes and albums tucked away, we encourage Chinese adoptees to digitize these materials. In so doing, we can engage with and save these important visual records of our own personal histories while also collaboratively constructing a community archive of our diaspora’s origins.
This site is a protoype and proof of concept for the archive project. It is generated using CollectionBuilder-Sheets, a template for creating simple digital exhibit websites by loading collection metadata directly from a CSV, designed for teaching digital library skills and easy hosting on GitHub Pages.
Contact
Email: zhaowo.archive (at) gmail.com
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
The site started from the CollectionBuilder-Sheets template which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.