Mei Stone Creative Hub
Translation, not preservation
We do not restore a building.
We translate a history. And we design that translation into a service system that can sustain itself.
Meishi Village on the island of Nangan, Matsu, holds two derelict "Special Tea Room," former military brothels operated by the state during the Cold War, running until the 1990s. After demilitarization they stood empty for decades, together with the gendered history they kept silent. Such a building leaves only two conventional paths: preserve everything, and you materialize the violence; demolish entirely, and you erase state accountability. We chose a third path: keep the architecture, change the social function entirely. A site that once systematically exploited women is translated into a space where a new generation. including those once silenced. can freely create and live together.
Triple Translation
three horizontal transformation axes
Cold War military architecture → Creative incubator for youth
Site of gendered violence → Gender-equal commons
Isolated military frontier → Global digital node
These three layers are mutually conditional:
Without the gender-equality commitment, this becomes a "military nostalgia" lodging.
Without the fiber backbone, the incubator is an empty shell.
Without acknowledgement of the original function, "regional regeneration" is mere packaging.
Paid Support + Public Welfare Release
Revenue from the Paid Support track structurally subsidizes the free release
of the Public Welfare track. This is not charity.it is social responsibility
embedded into the financial structure, so the project can sustain itself
without dependence on government grants.
What We Do
38
Paid Booking
64%
Avg occupancy
12
Welfare programs released
04
Local stewards
onboarded
IMPACT · A PROMISE, LANDED
In the summer of 2025, sixteen children — eight from Matsu, eight from mainland Taiwan. spent a week at Mei Stone, learning to see their homeland through a lens.
Qinliving provided the venue and full accommodation across two historic buildings, free of charge, for the entire week. A space once in service of power became, for those seven days, a classroom for children's eyes and a teacher's devotion. This is our concrete act of goodwill, given freely in the name of public benefit.
ABOUT THIS STORY — ENGLISH SUMMARY
In August 2025, documentary director Ho Ming-jui brought the "Director's Douhua Truck" .a mobile filmmaking classroom born of a promise to the late aerial photographer Chi Po-lin, "You fly above; I'll run on the ground" .to the island of Matsu. Sixteen schoolchildren, eight from Matsu and eight from mainland Taiwan, spent five days here at Mei Stone (August 25–29), learning to film their homeland with cameras and drones, and making douhua, Taiwanese tofu pudding, along the way. Qinliving Co., Ltd. provided the venue and full accommodation across two historic buildings, free of charge. These walls, once part of a silenced Cold War history, served a different purpose that week: a classroom for sixteen pairs of eyes learning to see. This is one of the twelve welfare releases structurally funded by paid bookings. the system described on our hub pages, running once, in real life.
