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A Year in Cambridge: an Autoethnography of Love and Embrace

Qiu Buyuan

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"A Year in Cambridge: An Autoethnography of Love and Embrace" is a non-fiction literary work about elite education thinking and women's emotional growth. The story begins with the author's receipt of the admission letter from Cambridge and her decision to divorce, which happened almost simultaneously. It mainly records her one-year study career in Cambridge, tracing back to how she came to the UK and entering Cambridge, and elucidating her life experience and transformation behind it. While studying in Cambridge, the author not only felt the rich Cambridge culture, experienced the unique workshop-style classroom teaching, had interesting interactions with classmates who had all kinds of lives, bravely tried a talk show for the first time, wrote his hobby of hip-hop into a paper, attended a graduation prom, etc., But also discovered from himself the traditional sexual characteristics of thousands of women. It records the long-term neglected and repressed emotions and needs in intimate relationships under different power structures. It records the process of a woman who has struggled with the powerlessness of relationships and gradually regains her strength. It shows her stumbling but still insisting on the journey of growth, as well as her learning of love and embrace, including how to love others, embrace yourself, embrace others and embrace yourself.