MengCheng 梦城团 Collective (pronounced “muh-ng chuh-ng”) is an invitation into intergenerational dialogue, communal healing, and empowerment by sharing the Chinese-American experience of living in the American South. MengCheng 梦城 “City of Dreams” is inspired by the Chinese phonetic name for Memphis, or mèng fēi sī 孟菲斯. As artists and makers who grew up in Memphis, we formed this collective to challenge the way our cultural histories have been collected, disseminated, or made invisible. Through an art making process centered around food, ritual, and gathering, we create spaces to involve the Southern Chinese-American community in their own archive making, healing, and resource building. We aim to create transformative processes that allow the Chinese-American community to not only see ourselves in the history and future of the Mid-South, but also to claim our agency in enacting change in the region.