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  • 9 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning German, Italian, Spanish
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Student/Consultant
  • MBA, Master of public administration and Art management, ...
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About Me

Moved from Milan Italy to Miami USA! I want to discover and know more about The World!

Everyday above earth is a positive day!

I was born and spent my childhood in a small traditional town in Northern China and then study and grown up in Shanghai. Luckily, I saw many parts of China and this world in such a young age and I'm still on my way to explore more.

I try to make life, the relationship with other peoples and the world, a bit simpler and easier.

I love life, nature, art, music...many things. I try to see things objectively. I laugh/smile a lot. I'm a very cheerful/happy person. Sometimes a bit childish, ahahhah...

I'm tidy, respectful, nice, funny, clean, caring, reliable, honest, easygoing, open-minded...

I worked charities/NGO (UN, WFP) multiple national companies(P&G, GM, Deloitte, musical theater, arts, co-founded 2 companies...

Too many things I can't control/know/understand; I change all the time/sometimes obsess on something; People change/ remain stubborn, etc.; however, I suppose, I can choose, at least today, to be happy/quite/sad..., at least when I with myself. It's easier to change place, friends, job... than myself.

To search "the meaning of life/why live" "who am I""where I come from"…to experience different kind of life...to know our world and society... I stayed in temple in Tibet and India...stayed with homeless, prostitutes, drug dealers...bankers, rich people... I have to find my own way or my life is walking to me and left history behind.

Sometimes I get touched by small things, sometimes I feel human, society, life...don't make any sense. But I choose to love life and embrace this world. I'm still meeting new people and trying new things. Maybe one day I will find the purpose/meaning of my life, I mean, simply could be something that I can't wait to wake up to do and feel happy and content when sleep at night. Maybe not. But always be positive and keep looking for. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

When experiences/memories getting cold and distorted, when love/emotions sparking and fading away, when I finally reach the peace/balance with myself and this world, but then in a certain point everything becomes ridiculous and the battles start again and again, when I'm busy/ exhausted, when I laugh/cry but don't understand why, when I try to control/fight or be controlled, when I try to let things/people in or go...

No matter what happens, always keep your childish innocence.

After all, we are human. We feel lonely. We scare/fear. We hungry/thirsty/horny/desire. We are different. We want to love and be loved.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I try to involve more with CC, I try to have a better relationship with myself and this world.

I have limited budget but I'm not poor. For me, CC is not a free bed but a great way to know locals and places from the local perspectives. I only live one life, my life, this life; I'd like to see, feel, experience other people's life and stories, and see our planet, this tiny place in the universe but gigantic stage for life and nonliving.

Fate/destiny/coincidence/random/designed, I haven't had many successes in CC referring to find a host. After investing Energy/Heart/Time, most time cold replies. Obviously this is not an economical way to travel at all, with the time I can work and earn money to pay a 5 star hotels. Ahahahha. But...I still hope to meet some nice people, as stars shinning my sky.

Interests

1. Arts (Modern arts & Impressionism; Contemporary Dance), Music, Food & Beverage, Travel
2. Philosophy, politics, physiology, culture, history, architecture …
3. Technology (VR, AI, BI, Big Data, Energy...)
4. Economics, Finance, Business, Marketing, consulting
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Sports related in Nature: hiking, diving, cross-country skiing, swimming/naked in nature, biking, horse riding...
I love nature. I love sea/lakes/rivers..., animals, plants, weather/wind/fog/cloud/snow/rain/sunshine...
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Cooking, I love it and good at it! Especially Chinese food, obviously. And I am always in the mood to learn sth new. But I'm not sure if I can really cook, ahahhahahha
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Dance, dance, dance...

  • culture
  • cooking
  • wine
  • chinese food
  • partying
  • electronics
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • scuba diving
  • skiing
  • swimming
  • economics
  • languages
  • religion
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
1. Disco/Dancing music, 80's is the best!
2. Jazz! Jazz!
3. Musicals/Das Musical
4. Techno/electronic
6. Indie (Bob Moses, Leslie Clio, Club 8, Best Youth, Haux, Oh wonder, Jonas David, Arctic Lake, From Your Balcony, Cigarettes after sex, Nothing,nowhere, Kailo, FiFi Rong, The Cranberries, Steve Reich, MKJ, Placebo... )

7. Bjork, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Rin', 和楽器バンド, 初音ミク, Kate Bush, Queen, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Bananarama, Bonnie Tyler, Bronski Beat, Cher, Culture Club, Cyndi Lauper, Diana Ross, Eurythmics, Kylie Minogue, Wham!, ABBA, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Muse, Pablo Alboran, Amy Winehouse, KAZAKY...
8. World music, e.g., Traditional Chinese music, especially from the monority nations, Tibetenese, xinjiang, dong... It's the hidden secrecy treasure in China. 古琴

Books:
the three-bodies problems 三体, The Grand Design (Hawking), 红楼梦, 道德经, La Dame aux cam lias, Le Petit Prince, Gone with the Wind...
Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, Plato, Max Weber, G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Milton Friedman...

Movies:
Doctor who, Star wars, The Matrix , The Wizard of Oz, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (the classic one), 大护法之黑花生, 白夜行びゃくやこう, 倩女幽魂, 君の名は, 深夜食堂しんやしょくどう, Miyazaki Hayao みやざき はやお宫崎骏系列 (风之谷 千与千寻 天空之城), 攻壳机动队 Ghost in the Shell(Japanese ones), Paprika红辣椒(Japan 2006)

Musicals:
Halo Dolly, Sunset Boulevard, Into the Woods, Phantom of the Opera, Rebecca Das Musical, Tanz der Vampire...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

*Traveled around Greenland and around Iceland, it's an alien dream beyond imagination. Icebergs, wales, Northern lights, Ice cave, waterfalls...
*Hitchhiked from Shanghai to Tibet
*Cross the U.S. from Miami to L.A.
* In UN program in Mideast & Africa
*Assisted a famous Art dealer & curator in Shanghai
* Attended Fashion show of Armani, Fendi, Prada with my fashion buyer friends
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1. From Shanghai to Tibet, thanks to all the amazing Chinese Cser host,I spent no money on hotel and really had a remarkable new impression about China. This country is really diversify and generous! Also, I hitchhiked all the way from the front door of my university in Shanghai to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. Right, no money spent on the transportation tools.All the way only hitchhike and walk. What's more, actually most time in Tibet I was with the local. Tibet also has different languages, cloth, food, culture, religions, stories...Besides the breathtaking view, the absolutely

2. Aha, who say it's not easy to hh in Spain? Not really. Especially in Taganana, a small village in Tenerife. The hospitable resident never let you feel boring. Some neighbours brought us fruit and wine from their own garden,some invited us to
culture/music events,some teach me guitar, cooking...But the most amazing part was soon then I joined a hiking team and found love and then hate it, ahahhhahahha.

1.I am running a charity targeted at helping poor students in mountain eras, China. Let them know they have choices. Let them know this is a great big world out of their mountain.

2.So many lies in China make people confused, narrow, and foolish. A few ppl kidnap and consume the whole country. There have to be a group of young ppl who really care about this country to do reacher, earn, expose, fight, and change. I just want to know what's happening. Now in a team, lately we focus on the real estate problem. I dont wanna be a Chinese or German or whatever. I only live once, I want to live as a special individual in my way with "the true the good and the beautiful" to make this world somehow better-off.

Teach, Learn, Share

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I play a kind of rare music instrument -- Guqin
I do a bit Origami
I sing
I travel
I think
I love
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I'm a drop of water in the ocean, what/where/how I see/move/think/feel is dynamic but ridiculously limited and insignificantly narrow. I'd like to exchange our world.

What I Can Share with Hosts

1. Culture & knowledge & travel experience

I'm very familiar with the eastern culture, history, geography... China, Japan... Especially I can see it from an international perspective, which is kinda rare as Chinese. I have Bachelor in Electronic Information Engineering, Bachelor in Finance, Economics, and Accounting, now doing Master of Public Administration & Art Management. So I can give you different perspectives.

I can also share a lot about places I've been.

2. Eastern philosophy

Daoism & Tibetan Buddhism & Shintoism & Alchemy & Others

I can play a kind of Chinese Daoism music instrument to you if I'm carrying it.

My family book is 3500 years old, we carry down lots of our own ancient understanding of this world and universe, I'd like to share. About time & space & energy & universe & individual & consciousness & nature & religions & supernaturals & Fengshui & Chinese medicine ...

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United States, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Germany, Norway, Spain, United States

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