This is Mason Hu’s personal blog, used to record some fragmented experiences and thoughts, as well as to store his personal portfolio and podcast transcripts.
About the Author
I am Mason, a Master of Laws graduate and an investment and financing lawyer. I was born in the 1990s, am trying to make a living for myself and my family, and still carry a small amount of idealism.
I love history and literature, and I have long had an interest in AI. I now run a modest personal podcast, Reasoned Talk (议正言辞).
Email: blog@masonhu.org
WeChat official account: 议正言辞.
What You Will Find Here
The site has four main kinds of content:
- Podcast transcripts: full transcripts of the Chinese podcast 议正言辞， now at 24 episodes. Each episode starts from a case or an institution and works through an episode of Eastern or Western legal history, with audio and sources attached.
- Essays on law and history: standalone writing beyond the podcast, mostly on cases and institutional history, including extended reading for individual episodes.
- Reading notes and tech posts: notes on books, plus records of tools and skills the author built.
- Diary entries: occasional personal notes.
The English site carries translations of the Chinese articles and a separate English podcast, Reasoned Talk, which has released 2 episodes and is numbered and updated independently of the Chinese show.
About this Blog
This blog is used to record fragmented experiences and thoughts, as well as occasional complaints and ramblings. It will also house skills and tools I’ve developed, and transcripts of my personal podcast, “Eloquent Discussion.” It doesn’t pursue value in the sense of communication studies; rather, it’s like a long-term repository for personal experiences and reflections.
The blog was created during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Posts dated before January 1, 2020 were written before the blog existed and are personal historical pieces. Because of my age and limited perspective at the time, those older posts are not always very readable, and some attitudes or views in them are no longer ones I hold or accept.
This blog used to be called Bright’s Blog and was hosted at ibrights.github.io . In 2024, when I could no longer complete two-factor authentication for my old GitHub account , I moved my past posts here and changed my pen name from Bright to Mason. Although I later recovered the old account, I continue to write at masonhu.org , with the old site serving as a signpost to the new one. The name and address have changed, but the person writing is still me.
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Copyright
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