Programs
Zhihe's core activities—reading camps at the center, year-round.
Core Program
Zhihe NEXUS's flagship program. Facilitators stay in a city for about ten days of summer camp. After training, each designs an original course centered on text reading and discussion, with two to three hours of class daily.
Core Program
A condensed reading camp during winter break, usually three to five days. Each facilitator leads one 2–3 hour discussion session, closer in form to a reading group or salon.
Year-round
Zhihe explores online formats to fill the gap outside summer and winter breaks. We host one public lecture or roundtable discussion each month on a specific theme, led by past facilitators.
Camp Life
During summer and winter reading camps, facilitators and participants gather for roundtable co-learning across cities.
Summer Reading Camp
2025 Zunyi Summer Camp · Opening Ceremony
Camp Life
Roundtable learning and closing moments during camp
Memories
Recording summers that resist easy capture—words and echoes from facilitators, participants, and volunteers.
Camp notes · Yuncheng
In the Dark, Everything Grows Quietly Too
The plane circled over Yuncheng Salt Lake before landing, and the facilitator arrived with a pamphlet dotted with typos. Over five days, youth literature stubbornly seeped into the hearts of a group mostly made up of middle schoolers around the round table—on the day I left, I climbed over Nanfeng School's fence to say goodbye to this school.
Camp notes · Harbin
The Ice May Melt, But the River Keeps Flowing
Sitting at one corner of the round table, watching co-readers speak their minds in the northern afternoon sun—years later, I finally sat on the other side of the table for the first time, and finally understood how much silence and tears it takes to earn that kind of gaze.
Camp recap · Zunyi
Night Flight Is a Bold Rush Toward This Moment
This summer, Zhihe Nexus Roundtable Book Club came to Ledu in Zunyi—a beautiful encounter, a graceful turning point. The mountains and waters of Guizhou, together with a sea of knowledge open to debate, discussion, and freedom, will remain a warm memory we carry forever.
Camp recap · Guiyang
From Nowhere to Nowhere, Using the Useless to Pierce the Useless
The roundtable is the central image of Guiyang's summer. For twelve days we sat in circles in classrooms and on pine needles in the forest—Zhihe's roundtable is an echo clinking glasses with truth, and a love letter written to this city.
Timeline
Courses
Examples of original roundtable courses designed by past facilitators.
Understanding war through critical geography, using feminist, postcolonial, and post-structural theory to examine the social impact of war, militarism, weapons, and military architecture.
Exploring animal ethics and questioning anthropocentrism—do factory farming, animal testing, habitat destruction, and neglect of companion animals constitute injustice?
(Non-human) animals live in a world dominated by humans. Together we explore whether animals' suffering is unjust and what individuals can do.