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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Who Am I, and What’s My Name?
Read more: Who Am I, and What’s My Name?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 Failure of “Failure”
Read more: The Failure of “Failure”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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📝: 关于“自杀”的思考
Read more: 📝: 关于“自杀”的思考首先，这个加了引号的“自杀”并不是字面意义的结束生命，而是关于具有“自杀”特质的反应行为。我的生活中贯彻了“自杀”策略和本色的行为。在我写完这两句话的时候我感到身体发冷很慌张，我意识到我的文字是如此analytical，我不知道我会将这篇内容写成解离性障碍后的第三视角评论文章还是情感的抒发，我不知道是不是过于理性的写作工作与理性化情绪影响了我引以为傲的文字中的细腻。
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Memories – Something We Can Hold On To
Read more: Memories – Something We Can Hold On ToAn 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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