The Duck Pond: An Autoethnographic Comic

Abstract

This short comic documents the author's search for ancestral roots. Her family were among the thousands of people who emigrated from Southern China to Southeast Asia during the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. The comic follows a trip from her home in Victoria, Canada to Xiamen, China in search of her grandfather's birthplace. The accompanying text discusses the sketches that became the basis for the comic, and how drawing and comics can be used in anthropological research.