A headshot of Meredith Chen on August 28, 2021 (JMSC Photo/Karlok)
Student of HKU MJ
Born and raised in mainland China, Meredith Chen is currently pursuing a Master in Journalism at The University of Hong Kong. She has graduated from Sichuan University with a Bachelor of Journalism degree since June 2021, with the Outstanding Graduate Award.
Meredith started her study in Journalism from the second academic year of university in 2018, after having spent her freshman year majoring in Management of Library, Information, and Archives. In September 2019, she went to Taiwan as a half-year exchange student at National Chengchi University, where she began to pay particular attention to the identity issue of people in the Greater China.
In 2020, driven by her interest in creative non-fiction writing, which had been developed during the summer school courses she took at The University of California, Berkeley, She signed up for and was admitted into the course taught by Peter Hessler. Instructed by Peter, she learned how to tell stories from personal experiences, interviews, observation, and research, and practiced her writing skill through composing profiles, features, personal essays, etc.
During her undergraduate period, Meredith worked as an intern in different media-related organizations. She was once an intern editor in the university press, a trainee reporter in the Current Politics News Center of the Red Star News, and an English editor for an online reading application named MintReading, where she was involved in the examination of the contents of the Harry Potter project.
Apart from the aforementioned interest in identity, Meredith holds a passion for various topics: gender, film, music (especially indie music), culture, etc. She is also an amateur photographer who loves documentary photography and has now been interested in film photography.
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