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What does it mean to Heal?

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What does it mean to Heal?

  • ā€œI am Rooted, but I Flowā€

    Born in 2009 and raised in Shenzhen, I am a Hui high school student exploring the cultures we inherit: how they’re preserved, reinterpreted, and sometimes lost in a modernizing world, and how culture, belief, and relationships shape the decisions we make about our lives and well-being.

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    Medical Anthropology Ā· Culture Ā· Storytelling Ā· Community

    Chapter I: Inheritance

    Before we make choices, we inherit ways of seeing the world.

  • 1. Drama: The Names We Inherit

    A 45-minute monodrama exploring how culture, identity, and tradition are inherited—and what happens when the meanings those traditions once carried begin to disappear.

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  • 2. Hui Cultural Archive: From the Scripture Hall

    I became interested not in whether tradition or modernity ā€œwins,ā€ but in how people live between them—interpreting both as they make decisions about illness, family inheritance, and care.

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    Qur'an, The Canon of Medicine, and interpretations of illness and health

    Explore textual archive

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    Oral histories and interviews with Hui Muslims

    Watch interviews

    Interpret

    Three analysis essays on Hui culture, religion, medicine, and modernity

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  • Chapter II: Encounter

    The way we seek care carries the worlds we come from

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    Cross-school project: Healing Narrative

    A medical anthropology investigation in China

    A long-running student organization I took over with like-minded peers. We explore the relationship between doctors and patients, and how the same illness can be understood, experienced, and told so differently from each side and under different circumstances

  • Chapter III: Inquiry

    Approaching the world from more than one direction

    Antibiotic Policy & Resistance Architecture
    Abstract Antibiotic resistance (AMR) genes have the potential to persist after policy...
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    Muscle Protein Turnover
    Abstract This study investigated the effects of dietary protein levels on muscle protein...
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  • Chapter IV: Voice

    The worlds we belong to are also shaped by our participation

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    Stray Cat Caring

    Led a community based Stray Cat TNR effort to make small contributions to animal welfare

  • Speech: Self-Belief

    A 9 minutes speech on the power of believeing yourself. Recieved 75 k+ likes on social media !

  • Beginning with the question of how people understand the world they live in, I became, over time, increasingly interested in the forces that surround those understandings—culture, belief, relationships, institutions, and history.

    A treatment may begin in a laboratory. But whether it is trusted, resisted, interpreted, remembered, or accepted happens somewhere else: in families, communities, institutions, histories, and stories.

    That is the space I want to keep studying.

  • Let's Be Friends

    Have a story, a question, or an idea to share? I'd love to hear from you.

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