User:Jiawen

30-something American, MA in History of Asian Religions, specifically Neo-Confucianism. Interests: Chinese (language, literature, phonology, Classical Chinese, dialectology, pedagogy), Chinese religion (esp. Neo-Confucianism, Daoism and Zhuangzi), East Asia in general, science fiction (cyberpunk, social science fiction), RPG's (Spheres, HârnMaster, Traveller, GURPS, constructed worlds, etc.), gender studies (esp. transgender issues, esp. esp. Chinese transsexual issues), manga and anime (esp. things by Miyazaki Hayao, Katsuhiro Otomo and Masamune Shiro), CGI art (Lightwave, Inspire, Bryce, the Gimp, Paint Shop Pro), computers in general (DTP, PHP, HTML/web design, Linux), alternative music and ambient music (Cocteau Twins, Lush, Wang Fei, Dif Juz, Harold Budd, sing-sing, Yu-ra, Ha Ri-su and others), philosophy, religion, astrophysics, many other things.

Homepage: http://www.jiawen.net