"A PhD Candidate" is a film about a Chinese PhD student living in America. He is sponsored by Chinese government. The government pays him some money every month for living expenses. In exchange he has to return to China right after graduation. After coming here, he found he still lives in a small circle of Chinese people isolated from the American society. His professor and peers are also from China. The environment makes him doesn’t have many chances to communicate with American people. And most importantly, he doesn’t think it is necessary to get integrated with the American social life. Since he knows he will not stay in here. He feels it is more comfortable to live in a closed environment. The above is what interested me at the beginning. I intended to make this film of his life to see how this unusual identity influenced him. Along with the process of filming, I realized I was involving in a new form of transnational academic life. In American academia today there are many Chinese PhDs . The full scholarship or funding provided by Chinese government covered their tuition and living expenses. A PhD for them is more like a job, rather than studying. Also their relation with professors is similar to a kind of employment. So the film is not only about the identity of a foreigner, but also about a kind of academic labor outsourcing. Through watching the film the audience may find how it is like in the lower level of the academic pyramid.

《重走：在公路、河流和驿道上寻找西南联大》是青年作者杨潇的新作，也是单读出版推出的首部长篇非虚构作品，关于一个不无困惑的写作者徒步重走西南联大西迁路的故事。 1938 年，“湘黔滇旅行团”徒步跨越三省穿过西南腹地；2018 年，处在人生转折点的青年作者杨潇重新踏上这条 1600 公里长路。这是一次非典型的公路徒步旅行，不时要与大货车擦肩而过，但沿途山色、水光、鸟鸣、人语与历史上走在同一条路上的流亡者所见所闻渐渐重叠、交织，乃至对话、共振，一个层累的、被忽视的“中国”缓缓浮现。