March 10th: Sonic Anthropology and Autoethnography

Post your autoethnography to your blog and write a paragraph or two about what you have discovered in the process – about yourself as a practitioner/researcher, about the space you have chosen to document, about listening, etc. 

My own experience is contradictory and diverse. My father is Taiwanese, but I have lived in Shanghai most of the time. For me, Taiwan is like a paradise, a small island surrounded by the sea, where people live in a slow-paced and leisurely way. However, Shanghai is totally different from Taiwan. Shanghai is a fast-paced modern city. It seems that no one cares about how you are, because everyone is in a hurry to catch up with their own pace. Not only that, I also lived in Beijing for a while, Beijing is a city with many political elements, you can feel all kinds of red elements in the local area, but for me personally, Beijing is not what I love a place of residence. All in all, there are some natural elements in most of the works I listen to, the works I do, or the works I tend to love, some of which make people feel happy physically and mentally after listening to them.

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