Editor’s note: This bonus episode comes fromVistopia Roundtable, Episode 314.Drawing on their own experiences, Wang Fang and Cheng Qing discuss how we can remain different in an age of increasingly uniform and conservative choices.

A Year of Clouds and Water: Practicing at Eiheiji, by Kaoru Nonomura, Qingma Culture, 2021

What Makes Us Different: Forty Lectures on Personality Psychology, by Wang Fang, Imaginist, 2023

Productive Ordinary Lives: Chinese Society and Its People through Microhistory, by Wang Di, CITIC Press Group, 2022

Wang Fang | Host of Vistopia’s To the Unique You: Forty Lectures on Personality Psychology; professor at Beijing Normal University’s Faculty of Psychology

Cheng Qing | Host of Vistopia’s Relief for Life: Forty Introductions to Buddhism; associate professor of history at Shanghai University

Diandian | Vistopia audio editor and host of the Vistopia Roundtable podcast