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…)
心如虚空容万物，性似琉璃照千江
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“All at Once”
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Name, Identity, and Subjectivity 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. It represents the image of us, makes us an individual in this world, although the…
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The Analysis of Influencer Dazhi: Why Does She Fail to Be Recognised as Resistance? This essay is the final assignment from the course “Gender, Intersectionality and Cultural Critique” (YES I FINALLY GOT THE GRADE FOR THIS ESSAY) This is a theoretical reflection of “The Queer Art of Failure” & case study of a Chinese influencer.…
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An Autoethnography of Rethinking the “Normal” in Media and Cultural Studies This essay isn’t perfect by any means—some quotations were added just to meet requirements, and I’m still figuring out how autoethnography actually works. But as my first Honours Exploration piece, I’m happy to share it as the opening post of this blog. It reflects…
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