China Elevator Stories

Welcome to my YouTube channel! I am Ruth Silbermayr (also known as Ruth Silbermayr-Song), author of the blog China Elevator Stories (www.chinaelevatorstories.org), an award-winning blog featuring conversations with locals in China. I moved back to Austria from China in 2019 and lived in Vienna until 2025, when I moved back to China, where I currently live.

One of my stories has appeared in an anthology, and I have written as a contributing author for a magazine in Beijing. Furthermore, I have written a few books and am currently working on several more, all of which are yet to be published.