兴趣

• poetry
• chinese food
• walking
• board games
• socializing
• knitting
• podcasts
• hiking
• history
• volunteering
• historic sites
• urban exploration
• craft beer
• conversation
• comedy
• urban planning
• chinese culture
• vinyl records
• russian literature
• urbanism
• self-defence
• thriller movies

音乐、电影和书籍

Music:
1. French electronica (such as Fakear, LÜNE, offramp & ONRA
2. Traditional Chinese music (my favourite instrument is the erhu) and Chinese Jazz particularly the works of Pan Xiu Qiong
3. Classical music (Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is a real tear jerker)
4. Big Band Jazz
5. Folk Music such as by Utah Phillips and Pete Seeger
6. And a somewhat embarrassing liking for Britney Spears

Books: The Farewell Symphony (Edmund White), The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), The Family Law ( Benjamin Law), Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima), How the Steel Was Tempered (Nikolai Ostrovsky), The Crab Cannery Ship (Takiji Kobayashi), No Orchids for Miss Blandish (A. J. Raffles), 1984 (George Orwell) & Moscow-Petushki (Venedikt Yerofeyev).

Movies: The Great Gatsby, Solaris, Battleship Potemkin, Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble & Murder on The Orient Express

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Travelling around Western Europe as part of a choir tour including singing in Notre Dame...