Marks: 4/5 Shelf: Must Read/Nonfiction According to the Existentialism, we are actually living in a land with all the construction built by human itself rather than God or any other supernatural entities. However, anyone bored in a specific cultural context in specific families, provinces, countries and continents with the specific geographic environment and so-called established civilisation. While the humanists are like mathematicians tend to dig the truth of humans and the

Marks: 3.5/5 Shelf: Must Read/Nonfiction/Memoir When comes to bestsellers, to be honest, I don’t have much expectation. These written by professional writers are full of cliché, while the rest written by amateurs can be worse full of quotes from classics. So, when I started to read this book, I did feel it proved my prediction, even though it would be a bit unkind to say that. Paul Kalanithi is a quite outstanding young neurosurgeon, who suffered lung cancer and died in 2015.

Recently, I just went through many books and articles with a different sensation than I read them before. Taking 'Shooting An Elephant' by George Orwell as a very recent example. The story is more like a journal or a reflection of George Orwell his own. It describes the day he worked as an officer in one of the British colony, Burma. Though the white people were the conquers and rulers, the focal character, or we may say George Orwell himself as a component of the oppression

Marks: 3.5/5 Pros & Cons: Not book lovers pro-oriented/ Trendy, nicely-decorated Hangzhou, My hometown, as a prosperous city has been earning its name as an international city famous for its tourism industry and trendy products. However, there is no doubt that it is also a city with some famous historical relics and many anecdotes of ancient intellectuals. Raffles City is a recently-built high-end shopping mall next to The Mixc, another luxury shopping mall. Though I do belie

'So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.' —Virginia Woolf According to Marx’s theory, the superstructure depends on the base. So is part of Woolf’s theory. Of course, Woolf is the last person I would accuse her of being snobbish. But here she wrote almost at the end of this little book: That is it. Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectu

The day I write this is the 24th of February in 2019. I am 24 years old, or 25 years old in the Chinese way of counting. The time flies really fast and it stricks me by its speed. I still feel like I am a kid even I've finished my master degree in 2018. I felt a bit bewildered and lost since I graduated from UCL. Back in China, I restarted the life here, I felt it was a bit different from the life before. The place changed a lot, however, the people didn't change much. They