Becoming Everyone, Everywhere is a collection of short stories, notes, and snapshots drawn from Yasmine Anlan Huang’s travels and processes of relocation since 2019. Extending an autobiographical narrative and a recurring protagonist from her previous publications and films, the book shifts toward autofiction, reframing lived experience through a character who allows the author to rehearse lives she cannot yet inhabit. Siming, a transliteration of “Yasmine” back into Chinese, appears across four stories as an idol, an idol aspirant, a fledgling part-time girlfriend, and a defeated novelist in an unexpected chance encounter. Edging between danger and security, Siming approaches self-actualization as identity is performed, translated, and continually revised in fantasies.
Designer: Wenxi Liao
Editor: Jiaoyang Li, Wenxi Liao
Translators: Yvonne Lui, Lily Sun, Sixing Xu
Proofreaders: Madeleine Swart, Yasmine Anlan Huang
Printing coordinator: Jolie Zhilei Zhou
Published by Accent Edition, an imprint of Accent Sisters, 2026
Supported by Longlati Foundation (production), Freelands Foundation Artists' Bursaries 24-25 (development)
With special thanks to Pan Baohui and Qu Kejie
Size: 180 × 105 mm
Papers: Antalis Keaykolour Old Rose, Munken Print White 18, Munken Polar Rough, Arctic Volume White