I first visited Tibet for the Sho Dun Festival. Dozens of brawny lamas carried an enormous painting of Buddha and hung it on the hillside for local believers of all ages dressed in traditional Tibetan clothes to pay tribute. I learned from a local that this piece of art is called Tangka. The Tangka had cast a spell so strange and strong on me that day that I found myself journeying to inner Tibet for three consecutive summers, despite ongoing...

There’s a certain magic to learning language, finding out the combination and grammar rules, putting stokes together to complete the vocabularies and sentences, then communicate with others. Making friends and using language are always full of expectation. My fate with language begun with the teenage age's curiosity and the belonging of “hipster”. In my 5th or 6th grade, there was one hot website focus, “The Japanese history book had changed a part of the World War II the period...

Why are you drawn to the area(s) of study you indicated? Throughout my childhood, puzzles were always my favorite. Fitting and relocating the shuffled pieces back in one have always been very entertaining. That is my attitude towards history. I’ve read a lot to uncover the truth behind history. From this process, I gradually came to realize that there is no “truth” in history, and history is always selective. Some by accident, others on purpose. In a history...