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The Media Matrix and the Livestream Preview

Site Matters2025.10.13
The Media Matrix and the Livestream Preview
Lately I’ve been getting ready to run my own social media a bit, for example by starting interactive livestreams. Here I’m gathering my related accounts in one place (updated at any time), and welcome everyone to follow along. Personal blog homepage yilinhut.net The personal blog I’ve been writing since 2005 and updating fairly often (or occasionally); I try to post all my articles there whenever possible. Huawendao cn.style A personal commercial website I recently launched (Singapore), supporting paid commissioned writing and paid consultations; in the future I’ll also put some cultural souvenirs up for sale. Tianyu ARTECH tianyu.art A tech-and-art studio co-founded with Shen Cong (Hong Kong), maintained by Shen…
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2025年10月13日
My Qualification to Recruit PhD Students Was Revoked (with an Attached Record of Communication with Prospective Applicants)

History of Science & Scholarship2019.08.24
My Qualification to Recruit PhD Students Was Revoked (with an Attached Record of Communication with Prospective Applicants)
Today, just as doctoral applications were opening at Tsinghua University, I only learned of the bad news from a student’s reminder: Tsinghua University had suddenly changed its policy again and taken back the admissions rights of assistant professors and pre-tenure associate professors. In other words, at least for these next two years, I won’t be able to take students—unless I wait until I’ve slogged my way into a tenured position…… As for the policy change, I don’t want to comment too much. In fact, the overexpansion of doctoral admissions really is not a good thing, and there is reason to tighten it. But to announce the change only at this…
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2019年8月24日
The Responsibility of Intellectuals

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2019.08.22
The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Note: This article may not be reproduced; it is for Suixuan readers only. This article was written out of a sudden impulse. I had originally meant to dash off two paragraphs in one go, but the more I wrote, the more awkward it felt; in the end, I not only wrecked the thing, I couldn’t keep going either. But since, before I knew it, I had written more than seven thousand characters, I might as well post it. For archive purposes only. Emotions or attitudes, like thoughts and speech, are part of each person’s “freedom.” I have the right to worry myself sick, and I also have the right…
philosophy culture autobiography public sphere
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2019年8月22日
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]

Life & Notes2017.04.16
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
Tsinghua University has suddenly changed its policy again and taken back the admissions rights of all its tenure-track professors, so this admissions notice is temporarily invalid. Let’s wait until I’ve clawed my way to tenure before talking about it…… Following my teacher Wu Guosheng, I was extraordinarily lucky to join Tsinghua University as a faculty member, and just last month I became an assistant professor in the School of Humanities. At present I am still affiliated with the Department of Philosophy. Once the Department of the History of Science, being set up by Teacher Wu, is officially established, I will also belong to the Department of the History of…
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2017年4月16日
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]

Life & Notes2017.04.16
Hu Yilin’s Recruitment Notice [Expired]
Tsinghua University has suddenly changed its policy again and taken back the admissions rights of all its tenure-track professors, so this admissions notice is temporarily invalid. Let’s wait until I’ve clawed my way to tenure before talking about it…… Following my teacher Wu Guosheng, I was extraordinarily lucky to join Tsinghua University as a faculty member, and just last month I became an assistant professor in the School of Humanities. At present I am still affiliated with the Department of Philosophy. Once the Department of the History of Science, being set up by Teacher Wu, is officially established, I will also belong to the Department of the History of…
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2017年4月16日
Settling Accounts After the Fall and Talking About Shoes

Life & Notes2013.03.27
Settling Accounts After the Fall and Talking About Shoes
A few days ago I reposted and mocked Xi’s “shoe theory” on Weibo, and my dad got unsettled. He immediately called to warn me to be careful with what I said, so as to avoid settling accounts after the autumn harvest. Generally speaking, it is rather awkward when the blogs and Weibo accounts of people born in the 1980s and 1990s come under the gaze of their parents, and I am no exception. Although my writing is addressed to anyone, and even if it is watched by parents and relatives it will not place any real pressure on me, it would be a lie to say that it causes no…
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2013年3月27日
On Page Charges

Life & Notes2013.03.22
On Page Charges
Submission up to now, although quite a few short pieces and book reviews have been published, the situation with my properly serious academic papers is still rather worrying. The key, I suppose, is that I have simply not been conscientious enough; I only became energetically “sending many manuscripts to many journals” at a few particular points in time, and for most of the time I basically left things to fend for themselves. But two of my papers were both rejected after being accepted because of the issue of page charges, and this is a situation worth explaining. Perhaps you would guess that I refused to pay the page charges out…
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2013年3月22日
Never Forget National Humiliation, Never Harbor National Grievance

Life & Notes2012.09.19
Never Forget National Humiliation, Never Harbor National Grievance
After 9/18 had passed, seeing that the 7-Eleven downstairs was still open for business as usual, I finally let out a slight sigh of relief. The article I had meant to write yesterday but didn’t get around to writing, I’ve decided to make up today. I don’t know why 9/18 is called “National Humiliation Day.” At first glance that doesn’t seem like a problem, but the more you think about it, the more something feels off. What is “humiliation”? Shamelessness, brazen lack of shame, “to know shame is close to courage”… Dictionaries define it as “inner shame caused by damage to one’s reputation,” or as shame, disgrace, or embarrassment. If…
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2012年9月19日
[Reprint] Zhou Ruixuan: Lovers of wisdom, the things you don’t know — A note on Hu Yilin, a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy, Class of 2010

Life & Notes2012.09.18
[Reprint] Zhou Ruixuan: Lovers of wisdom, the things you don’t know — A note on Hu Yilin, a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy, Class of 2010
Note: The author is a girl I met back then when I was a TA for the “What Is Science?” course, and of course I was very honored to accept the interview. This should count as the first time I was written into an interview article, though of course one can still find an interview from when I was in middle school, as the “Dong Gezhi Star,” but that interview was fake; what I said was made up. This piece, however, really was the product of an actual conversation, and the author also used a lot of material from my blog. She showed it to me before publication, so it…
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2012年9月18日
The Shameful Greek Spirit

Culture & Public Commentary2012.08.14
The Shameful Greek Spirit
The London Olympics are over, and I should also turn my jet lag back to the timezone of my graduation thesis. This essay can count as a bridge between what came before and what comes after~ Let me give a heads-up first: this should be a fairly loose, freewheeling conversation, not entirely centered on the title. During the Olympics there were obviously two kinds of people on Weibo: those watching the Olympics, and those not watching the Olympics. Among the latter were a considerable number of people who were either cursing the Olympics or using the Olympics as a pretext to curse the system. Basically speaking, the left in China…
China freedom autobiography pursuit
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2012年8月14日