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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“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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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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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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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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