Moye Jin

Her research in recent months developed around "loneliness", which includes two sub-themes: "sense of place" and "companionship".

Under the criticism of globalization, migration, urbanization, changes in family structure, economic inequality, breakdown of traditional social institutions, and other issues, the lonely contemporary people have their burdens: being the tiny particle in the atomized society, while taking a glimpse of eternity beyond life, and walking with oneself alone.

The term sense of place is used to describe how someone perceives and experiences a place or environment. Anthropologists Steven Feld and Keith Basso define the sense of place as: "the experiential and expressive ways places are known, imagined, yearned for, held, remembered, voiced, lived, contested and struggled over." The sense of place comes from the symbol of "home" which can relieve loneliness by promoting community, comfort and engagement. It will also extend from microscopic and concrete spatial intentions to macroscopic and abstract cultural identity, so that the scope goes far beyond communities, hometowns, and cities, and extends to countries, the earth, the universe, and even virtual symbols.