Recently, I received an unexpected WeChat friend request from a 21-year-old young man in Taiwan, who introduced himself as my grandfather’s brother’s grandson. As a 37-year-old immigrant from mainland China now living in Canada, this sudden connection stirred deep emotions within me. Two branches of the same family tree, separated by historical choices, had taken…

I found a possible and interesting connection between the subjectivity framework from Foucault and the analytical terms proposed by Curium and Holstein (1995), which can be useful if we are taking advantage of both narrative analysis and subjectivity analysis as a methodology to understand subjectivity constitution through personal life history stories. The first term is…