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Overview

  • 5 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning Italian
  • 39, Unspecified gender
  • Member since 2019
  • No occupation listed
  • No education listed
  • From Berkeley, CA, USA
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About Me

Writing/editing a “pocket encyclopedia”
Documentary connoisseur, over 6,000-10,000 collected/watched 🤓😲

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Friends

Interests

Education Reform

  • books
  • documentaries
  • movies
  • chess
  • history
  • christopher nolan
  • chinese culture
  • planet earth
  • the wire
  • richard dawkins
  • christopher hitchens
  • bertrand russell
  • richard feynman
  • michio kaku
  • brian cox

Music, Movies, and Books

A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman
The Big Short (2014)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Cosmos (1980) Carl Sagan edition
Cosmos (2014) by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Wire (2002-2008)
The Civil War by Ken Burns (1990)
The Century of the Self (2002)
How the Universe Works (2010 - )
The Moneymasters (1996) by William T. Still
The Human Universe (2014) by Brian Cox
Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design (2012)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Magazine front cover 😬

Teach, Learn, Share

國語 英文 Fluent in both ✌🏻
Stuyvesant High School - New York City
UC Berkeley - California

What I Can Share with Hosts

Looking for laid-back and stimulating conversations

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Netherlands, Taiwan, United States

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