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2026

Banking on Wheels

#indiana#architecture#bank_history
2025

Bamboo Inn 竹 園

#indiana#architecture#asian_american_history
2025

Bush Stadium

#indiana#architecture#sports
2024

Emerson School

#indiana#architecture#american_history
2023

Full-Time Daughter 全职儿女

An essay reflecting on Alcinda Honwana's “‘Waithood’: Youth Transitions and Social Change” and Hannah J. Dawson's “Living, Not Just Surviving,” through China's trending “full-time daughter” role.

#reflection_journal#urban_sociology#waithood
2023

The ¥30,000 House

An essay reflected on Hannah J. Dawson's work “Living, Not Just Surviving: The Politics of Refusing Low-Wage Jobs in Urban South Africa.”

#reflection_journal#housing_crisis#urban_sociology#waithood
2023

Song of Land 田歌

An essay reflecting on Hannah J. Dawson's “Living, Not Just Surviving” and Tatiana Adeline Thieme's “The Hustle Economy,” through the story of a farmer-musician who returned to his village in Guangxi.

#reflection_journal#housing_crisis#urban_sociology#waithood
2023

One Building in the Urban Village

An essay reflecting on Teresa P.R. Caldeira's “Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South.”

#reflection_journal#housing_crisis#urban_sociology
2023

The Ever-Evolving Spectrum of Waithood

A paper exploring how young women in China navigate the housing and employment challenges of waithood — from buying homes in lower-tier cities to staying on as “full-time daughters.”

#waithood#housing_crisis#urban_sociology