YishuABOUT / YISHU
Yishu began with a committed team.
We began with volunteer teaching. We now record experiences in teaching, learning, and the encounters that happen between people.
Students, teachers, volunteers, parents, and education workers can contribute. Every contribution is reviewed by a person before it is made public.
FOUNDING TEAM
Yishu is a community for growth and exploration, founded by Joy Zhang and co-founder Chris Liu.
The website was designed by member Ryan Xiao. We hope experiences, questions, and relationships from educational settings can become public records that people read and discuss with care.
WHO CAN SPEAK
Open to everyone involved in education, with clear editorial boundaries.
What matters is not whether a contributor has volunteered as a teacher. We look for writing grounded in experience, respectful of the people within it, and willing to leave room for complexity and unanswered questions.
OUR PRINCIPLES
Students are not background characters
Records should respect the agency of students, teachers, and local communities. We do not encourage sensationalism, pity, or stories that cast a volunteer as a rescuer.
Privacy first
We do not publish minors’ real names, contact details, home addresses, or combinations of details that could identify them. Locations are normally described by a broad region; exact school addresses are not shown.
Use photographs carefully
If permission is uncertain, we prefer photographs of environments, teaching materials, hands, or people from behind. Uploaded photographs have hidden location metadata removed.
Make room for unfinished stories
A story does not need a polished conclusion. Failure, hesitation, contradiction, and questions without answers are worth recording too.
Specific experience before slogans
We welcome student letters, classroom moments, essays about education, project records, and thoughtful responses. We do not publish generic charity promotion, commercial advertising, rescuer narratives, or personal attacks.
Authors must have participated
AI may help with spelling or structure, but it cannot replace an author’s experience, judgment, or responsibility. Large volumes of generated content without real participation will not be published.
Common questions
Who can read the website?
The website is public. Anyone with the link can read it.
Who can contribute?
Students, teachers, volunteers, parents, project organizers, researchers, and others involved in education. Submissions do not appear automatically; editors review and publish them first.
Can minors contribute?
Yes. During this trial phase, a trusted adult must help submit and confirm publication permission. We do not publish minors’ contact details, real school names, class information, or exact locations.
Why can’t some photographs of children be published?
Identifiable photographs of minors need appropriate permission for public use. When that cannot be confirmed, we favor images of places, materials, or people who cannot be identified.
How can I contact the editors or request removal?
Email xiaoranze1@163.com and include the page link. Privacy, image permission, and correction requests receive priority review.