Moving My Website from UBC Blogs to GitHub
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Today I officially moved my personal website from UBC Blogs (old website) to GitHub Pages.
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Academic Life
A Pleasant Surprise from Canadian Geophysical Union
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I was very surprised and happy to learn that I was selected as one of the recipients of the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) Student & Early Career Researcher Travel Award for CGU 2026.
Books
Book Reflections: 1587, a Year of No Significance by Ray Huang
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I don’t think this book should really be considered a rigorous academic work of history. It feels more like an exploration of a philosophy of history. In the book, the author presents a very original idea: the major events that...
Book Reflections: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
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The crimes committed against the Osage people described in this book are truly horrifying. What is even more infuriating is that most of the perpetrators never received the punishment they deserved, and many truths have been buried by history, beyond...
Book Reflections: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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At first, I kept wondering why the book was titled Pachinko, since pachinko is a gambling game and the term hardly appeared in the first two parts of the novel. It was not until I reached the story of the...
Book Reflections: Notorious RBG by Shana Knizhnik and Irin Carmon
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Before reading this book, I had already read Becoming Beauvoir, so it felt natural for me to wonder whether RBG might also be a kind of Beauvoir. To be honest, they do share many similarities: both were gifted and outstanding...
Book Reflections: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
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This book is certainly not obscure, but it still took me more than half a year to finish reading it. To be honest, I preferred the first and middle parts of the book, which explain why authoritarian and dictatorial regimes...
Book Reflections: River Town by Peter Hessler
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Reading this book feels a little like looking at myself in a mirror. At first, it is somewhat humbling because Hessler’s observations about human nature in small Chinese towns feel uncomfortably accurate. For example, the mixture of curiosity and resistance...
Life
Moving My Website from UBC Blogs to GitHub
Published:
Today I officially moved my personal website from UBC Blogs (old website) to GitHub Pages.
A Pleasant Surprise from Canadian Geophysical Union
Published:
I was very surprised and happy to learn that I was selected as one of the recipients of the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) Student & Early Career Researcher Travel Award for CGU 2026.
Reading Notes
Book Reflections: 1587, a Year of No Significance by Ray Huang
Published:
I don’t think this book should really be considered a rigorous academic work of history. It feels more like an exploration of a philosophy of history. In the book, the author presents a very original idea: the major events that...
Book Reflections: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Published:
The crimes committed against the Osage people described in this book are truly horrifying. What is even more infuriating is that most of the perpetrators never received the punishment they deserved, and many truths have been buried by history, beyond...
Book Reflections: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Published:
At first, I kept wondering why the book was titled Pachinko, since pachinko is a gambling game and the term hardly appeared in the first two parts of the novel. It was not until I reached the story of the...
Book Reflections: Notorious RBG by Shana Knizhnik and Irin Carmon
Published:
Before reading this book, I had already read Becoming Beauvoir, so it felt natural for me to wonder whether RBG might also be a kind of Beauvoir. To be honest, they do share many similarities: both were gifted and outstanding...
Book Reflections: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
Published:
This book is certainly not obscure, but it still took me more than half a year to finish reading it. To be honest, I preferred the first and middle parts of the book, which explain why authoritarian and dictatorial regimes...
Book Reflections: River Town by Peter Hessler
Published:
Reading this book feels a little like looking at myself in a mirror. At first, it is somewhat humbling because Hessler’s observations about human nature in small Chinese towns feel uncomfortably accurate. For example, the mixture of curiosity and resistance...