In collaboration with Qiaochu Guo and hosted by Tianyi Zheng, Twin Hares reimagines the figure of Mulan through trans embodiment, regional folklore, and the fading legacy of socialist mythmaking. Rooted in Tianyi Zheng and Qiaochu Guo’s shared hometown—once branded by Mulan’s name and now in cultural decline—the work reflects on the failure of heroism and the poetics of selfdestruction. In both trans experience and Chinese
classics, destruction becomes a ritual of resistance and a threshold to rebirth.