Eternity, Purity, Curiosity.
– I’m an undergraduate at Universiteit Utrecht, BA: Media and Culture & Humanities Honours Programme ’27, a Chinese guy quite interested in transcultural studies and digital culture, while still figuring out the specifics. I’m also an ADHDer—you might notice it in the jumping logic and strange viewpoints within my essays.
– This slight-academic blog is currently made for the tutorial project of Honours Exploration Block 2, but I think I’ll keep it going after the course ends cause I kinda like free-writing. (Yes, I will pay 60 Euros per year for this…)
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“All at Once”
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Forgive Me, I Don’t Know Who, For I Have Sinned.
Read more: Forgive Me, I Don’t Know Who, For I Have Sinned.I live in Maarssenbroek, on the street of Het Kwadrant, which seems like a community from the future, but is currently still full of construction sites, dust, and uneven pavements that hurt my ankles. In this chaotic neighbourhood, residents misbehave and throw trash around the bins rather than putting it inside properly.
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“Dispersed, Disowned”
Read more: “Dispersed, Disowned”2025 is the 750th anniversary of the founding of Amsterdam. As part of the celebrations, an educational book distributed to schoolchildren included a boardgame criticised as racist…
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“Yellow Skin, White Eyes”
Read more: “Yellow Skin, White Eyes”When you’re standing on the train platform waiting for the last train, and someone who is drunk or high on drugs is shouting loudly somewhere — at that moment, what kind of concerns will appear in your mind?
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坎，珥，甘
Read more: 坎，珥，甘虽然“与自己和解”这个说法因为前些年在网络上的走红变得扁平，但我依然很喜欢这个词。生命中很多的放手都是与某些事情的和解。
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“Breathing the Same Air”
Read more: “Breathing the Same Air”Before I knew the concept of Impressionism, I had already encountered many paintings by Claude Monet and musical pieces by Claude Debussy…
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Who Am I, and What’s My Name?
Read more: Who Am I, and What’s My Name?Name, as the unique symbol of every human being, is endowed with multiple meanings: family blessing, ethnic identity, the cultural rhetoric, and all of the memories that shape the self-identity and subjectivity during the growing process…
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The Failure of “Failure”
Read more: The Failure of “Failure”The Analysis of Influencer Dazhi: Why Does She Fail to Be Recognised as Resistance?
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📝: 关于“自杀”的思考
Read more: 📝: 关于“自杀”的思考该如何谈起“自杀”呢，在日复一日的短视频洗脑中我依然深深的记住了一段哲学节目中主持人提到的, “the only philosophical problem that is truly serious, says Albert Camus, is suicide”
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Memories – Something We Can Hold On To
Read more: Memories – Something We Can Hold On ToWalking across the Erasmusbrug in Rotterdam for the first time, I could only think how prodigious the “Swan” is. A month later, standing on the Wei’er bridge in Zhangjiakou, during Chinese New Year, I had a strange sense of familiarity when looking at the bridge’s arch and cables that were similar to those of the…
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