Reading Inspiration


- The Undying by Anne Boyer
- Erotism: Death & Sensuality by Georges Bataille
- Sister Outsider, Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
- Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
- The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
- The summer of her baldness, a cancer improvisation by Catherine Lord
- Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
- Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China’s New Rich by John Osburg
- Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics by V.Jo Hsu
- Life, life selected poems by Arseny Tarkovsky (Арсе́ний Алекса́ндрович Тарко́вский)
- How The Steel Was Tempered(Как закалялась сталь) by Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky(Николай Алексеевич Островский)
- The Sheltering Sky by Poul Bowles
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger
- On Photography by Susan Sontag
- Photography Theory in History Perspective by Hilde van Gelder & Helen Westgeest
- The photograph as contemporary art by Charlotte Cotton
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Glitch Feminism, A Manifesto by Legacy Russell
- 苔のむすまで(A rolling stone gathered no moss)by 杉本博司 Hiroshi Sugimoto
- 青春之歌 The Song of the Youth by 杨沫 YANG MO
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) by Milan Kundera
- Psychologie des Foules (THE CROWD: A STUDY OF THE POPULAR MIND)by Gustave Le Bon
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking by Michael Keevak
- A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific by Hua Hsu
- Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu


Music Inspiration

- Концерт для фортепиано с оркестром № 2 до минор, op. 18 (The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18), Сергеем Рахманиновым (Sergei Rachmaninoff), 1900-1901
- Arabesque L.66 No. 1. Andantino con moto in E major, Claude Debussy, 1888-1891
- Концерт для фортепиано с оркестром № 1 фа-диез минор, ор. 1 (The Piano Concerto No. 1 in F♯ minor, Op. 1),Сергеем Рахманиновым (Sergei Rachmaninoff), 1891
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19 (Концерт № 1 для скрипки с оркестром D-dur, op. 19), Сергей Прокофьев (Sergei Prokofiev), 1915-1923
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16, Сергей Прокофьев (Sergei Prokofiev), 1912-1913
- The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) , Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "Summer" (L'estate), Ⅲ.Presto, Antonio Vivaldi, 1718-1720
- The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) , Violin Concerto No. 4 in F Minor, RV 297 "Winter": I. Allegro non molto, Antonio Vivaldi, 1718-1720
- Piano Concerto in G Major, M. 83, Maurice Ravel, 1931
- Pavane pour une infante défunte, Maurice Ravel, 1899
- Piano Concerto in G Major, M.83, Maurice Ravel, 1929-1931
- The Planets, Op. 32, Orchestral suite by Gustav Holst,1914-1917
- Má vlast, Bedřich Smetana, 1874-1879
- The Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 (Czech: Symfonie č. 9 e moll "Z nového světa”), Antonín Dvořák, 1893
- The Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (B. 96 / B. 108), Antonín Dvořák, 1879
- Mazurka, Op. 17 No. 4 in A minor, Frédéric Chopin, 1833
- Nocturnes No.17 in B Major Op. 62 No.1, Frédéric Chopin, 1845-1846
Poème, Op. 25, Ernest Chausson, 1896
- Fantaisie-Impromptu (Polish: Fantazja-Impromptu) in C♯ minor, Op. posth. 66, WN 46,Frédéric Chopin, 1834
- energy flow, Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一,1999
- opus, Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一,1999
- chanson, Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一,1999
- Studio Album: Async, Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一,2017

“We're American-made?"

- Album: Norman Fucking Rockwell!, Lana Del Rey, 2019
- Know Your Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, 1992
- Lotus Flower, Radiohead, 2011
- (Nice Dream), Radiohead, 1995
- Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi, Radiohead, 2007
- Kiss Me, Sixpence None the Richer, 1997
- Breath Your Name, Sixpence None the Richer, 2002
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, U2, 1987
- The Joke, Brandi Carlile, 2018
- Every Time the Sun Comes Up, Sharon Van Etten, 2014
- Eclipse, Pink Floyd, 1973
- From the Start, Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir 林冰, 2023
- Album: Mandarin, Mandarin 普通人乐队, 2020
- 大石碎胸口, Omnipotent Youth Society 万能青年旅店, 2020
- 郊眠寺, Omnipotent Youth Society 万能青年旅店, 2020
- 存盘点 Check Point, 橘子海 Orange Ocean, 2019
- 艷紅 Sunset Red, Deca Joins, 2020
- 霧 Fog, Deca Joins, 2020
- 乏善可陳 ㄈㄚˊ ㄕㄢˋ ㄎㄜˇ ㄔㄣˊ fá shàn kě chén, Deca Joins, 2020
- 夏夜晚風 Summer Night Wind, 伍佰 WUBAI & China Blue, 1996
- 白鴿, 伍佰 WUBAI & China Blue, 1999
- 忽然之間, 莫文蔚 Karen Mok, 1999
- 平原, 缺省, 2022
- Blooming, Leah Dou 竇靖童, 2017
- Supersonic Wonderland, Leah Dou 竇靖童, 2020
- 窗外 Outside the Window, Dou Wei 窦唯,1995
- The End, The Beatles, 1969