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
Posts
“All at Once”
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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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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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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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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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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 Analysis of Influencer Dazhi: Why Does She Fail to Be Recognised as Resistance?
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Walking 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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