Lijie at the gate of Dexian Road Elementary School, Qingdao

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Lijie at the gate of Dexian Road Elementary School (青岛市市南区德县路小学) on a return visit as an adult — black coat, red wool scarf, red glove raised in a wave. Behind the school’s accordion-style security gate, the schoolyard is alive with students in winter coats, an assembly hour or recess in progress. Rising above the school in the upper left of the frame: the unmistakable twin red-roofed towers of St Michael’s Catholic Cathedral (青岛圣弥额尔大教堂), the 1934 German-Catholic landmark of Qingdao’s old town.

Dexian Road sits in the Shinan district (市南区) of central Qingdao, a block south of the cathedral — the heart of the German concession quarter where Lijie grew up. Her primary school years were spent within the same compact old-town walking radius that holds the cathedral, the seafront, and the old town’s earliest streets. The photograph is the visual companion to her parents’ Qingdao addresses and her own walking-distance childhood geography.

The return visit, with the schoolyard active behind her and her own primary-school self somewhere in the building’s history, is the Lijie analog of Chuck’s Highland Ridge Road — the institutional anchor of childhood seen across the years.

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中文

周丽婕于青岛市市南区德县路小学校门前

周丽婕成年后回访母校 — 黑色大衣、红色围巾、举起戴红色手套的手，挥手向镜头。学校的伸缩式安全校门后是热闹的操场，学生们穿冬日大衣 — 可能正值集会或课间。画面左上方红顶双塔为青岛圣弥额尔大教堂（1934年德国天主教传教士所建，老城区的标志性建筑）。

德县路位于青岛市南区中心地带，紧邻圣弥额尔大教堂以南一街区 — 这是Lijie成长所在的德占老城区核心。她的小学时代便在这片紧凑的步行半径之内度过 — 大教堂、海滨、老城最早一批街道，皆在同一街区之内。