By ZiYue (Kelly) Yang, V Form

In 2020, ZiYue founded the Naxi Music foundation, which aims to preserve, empower, and inherit Naxi Ancient Music. She directed the following documentary, Women in Naxi Ancient Music (2021) as part of her ongoing mission to preserve the NaXi ancient music and raise questions about ways in which minoritized cultures from around the world survive can under conditions of rapid modernization and globalization.