​​​Through Rees, a British traveller, we reinvented Shanxi merchants' heritage, once the blood that pulsed through China’s commerce veins. But it was never just about commerce; it was about the quiet weight of the past, the silenced voices in worn corridors, the concealed stories buried in weathered brick and stained account books. My role was to weave these moments into narrative, so every word, every scene, breathed with the past but spoke to a modern audience.

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As the documentary gathered momentum on the major sites, I knew we had created something more than a film—it was an opening, an introduction to a world that still lingers just below the surface of modern Shanxi. Some stories get lost, but others—when told well—are reborn.​