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Husband and wife coaching team Christopher Pei and Zhang Guifeng watch 10-year-old Tony Wong practice Wushu. The two have been teaching the sport for 30 years.
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Twelve-year-old Jocelyn Gu practices her performance for the USAWKF National Team Trials while Zhang corrects her form.
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Pei and Zhang chat during a class break. The couple met and married in the 1980s.
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Pei and Zhang met in Beijing, and married in 1984.
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Zhang coaches from the sidelines as students stretch before practice.
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The advanced team, Jocelyn Gu, 12, Michelle Xiong, 14, Benjamin Tran, 15, Joanne Li, 13, Helen Gu, 16, listens to feedback from Zhang.
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Left: The advanced team laugh together during a break. Right: A Wushu student stretches to prepare for practice.
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Pei and Zhang have different, but complementary, personalities. Pei is a joker, Zhang is more strict.
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Zhang often makes Chinese herbal medications for her students' sprained ankles.
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Students greet Zhang before practice. She can be loud and strict, but often call her students BÇŽo Bèi Er, or my baby, and her students call her Mā, or mom.
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Pei and Zhang say their key to a long-lasting marriage is respecting each other's interests.
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Henry Wong records his 10-year-old son Tony Wong practicing. Pei and Zhang's overarching goal for the academy is to help students become a better person.
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Originally from China, Shuran Huang (she/her) is a photographer who currently based in Washington, D.C. Shuran’s work focuses on memory, family, and heritage through moments of intimacy, reflecting on the missing connections in her childhood.
