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this website is dedicated to make the humanities and arts more accessible to people of every walk of life. i strive to impart the intellectual and moral worthiness of supporting the humanities in higher education. I aim to highlight the role of creativity in motivating important intellectual and artistic production.

with tentacles reaching to various fields of the humanities, i am:

• author of “aesthetician” (a blog series on the values of studying the humanities)

• active pianist and flutist. i studied with Arthur Greene and jenny shin.

• RYT 200 yoga teacher (certified in the april of 2024)

• 5th-semester fluent in attic greek

i hold a bachelor of arts degree in classics & philosophy from university of michigan(2019-2023), after transferring from Northeastern philosophy (2018-2019). check out my mission statement for a philosophical education.

Before America, I went to school in Shanghai: jianping west (2012-2015), pinghe (2015-2018). check out my views on “elite education” in the chinese version of the gilded age.

Before Shanghai, I was born & raised in Kunming (2000-2012). 祖籍: 浙江诸暨.

outside the humanities (actually, still within):

i live in ann arbor with my cat teodor (adopted at the incredible humane society).

you can reach me at yuanff[at]umich[dot]edu