Eternity, Purity, Curiosity.
– I’m an undergraduate at Universiteit Utrecht, BA: Media and Culture & Humanities Honours Programme ’27, a Chinese guy quite interested in post-colonial studies and Gender studies. I’m also an ADHDer—you might notice it in the jumping logic and strange viewpoints within my essays.
心如虚空容万物，性似琉璃照千江
Posts
“All at Once”
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夏末随笔
Read more: 夏末随笔有一只虫子在我背上爬。 这句话不是一个文学上的隐喻，是真的有一只虫子在我的衣服里缓慢的爬行，六只小爪子扒着我的背，说不上是瘙痒难耐，但绝对是需要在乎的一个让人心烦意乱的隐患。
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Dancing With Our Legs Fettered
Read more: Dancing With Our Legs Fettered“Nothing is stranger than this business of humans observing other humans in order to write about them.” – Ruth Behar, The Vulnerable Observer
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Archipelagic Pride
Read more: Archipelagic Pride… in the context of the postcolonial state, it is crucial to reconsider: is this “alternative” an erased local culture, or is it also a borrowed framework for self-discovery, one predominantly shaped by the West?
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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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