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Essays, interviews, and reflections on psychoanalysis, Chinese experience, and the practice of thinking out loud.
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Chinese Psychoanalytic Scene
Essay · Feb 2026
Why I Write About China in English
To write Chineseness in another tongue is not betrayal — it is the only way some of it can be heard at all.
Read on Substack ↗Room
Between Worlds: A Chinese Analyst's Journey
On training across two psychoanalytic worlds, and the self that forms in the gap between them.
Read in Room ↗CPS
Inch by Inch — Xuanzang, Hu Shi, and the Ethics of the Translational Subject
What two Chinese translators, centuries apart, teach about carrying meaning across a border.
Read on Substack ↗Essaysfrom Chinese Psychoanalytic Scene
May 2026
Mourning as Belonging: On Traumatic Idealization in Chinese Psychoanalysis
China ↗
May 2026
"A System That Cannot Hold": Notes on Authoritarianism in Chinese Psychoanalysis
China ↗
Apr 2026
Knowing Without Entering: On Buddhism, Partial Digestion, and Psychoanalytic Prerequisites
Buddhism ↗
Apr 2026
Inch by Inch — Xuanzang, Hu Shi, and the Ethics of the Translational Subject
China ↗
Apr 2026
The Urge to Write Chineseness as a Melancholic Fantasy
China ↗
Mar 2026
The Gap as Ground: On Severance, Translation, and China's Marginal Spiritual Traditions
Buddhism ↗
Mar 2026
Hungry Ghost Shore
Cultural ↗
Feb 2026
Was There Ever a Self to Wake Up?
Buddhism ↗
Nov 2025
Shame That Protects vs Shame That Destroys
Clinical ↗
Nov 2025
Where Is Chinese Queerness? It's Been Here All Along.
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In printprofessional writing
Murakami's Traumatic Cities: When Time Stops in the Unconscious
The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (Substack)2026
"What School Are You?"
The American Psychoanalyst2026
Between Worlds: A Chinese Analyst's Journey
Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action2026
The Inner Negotiator: AI as Transitional Object and Echo
APsaA Committee on AI Report2026
Between Two Names
The American Psychoanalyst2025
The Shadow of the Dead Mother
The American Psychoanalyst2025
The Seen and the Unseen: AI's Disquieting Impact
Room2025
AI Assisted Creation and Narcissistic Predicament
APsaA Committee on AI Report2025
On airpodcast
Gaming, Analysis and Identity in the Age of AI
Room Podcast · in conversation