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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Self-decolonization]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[My work is inspired by the murals of the Mogao Caves and reflects on their destruction during Langdon Warner&#039;s early-20th-century expedition. After visiting the Harvard Art Museums and seeing the fragments, I felt compelled to confront the irreversibility of cultural loss and the ways the Western perspective shapes the representation of Asian bodies. Fragmentation serves as both a strategy and a scar, featuring jagged contours and floating motifs that disrupt the reading and create tension. I explore how colonial history has shaped East Asian beauty standards, resonating with Malcolm X&#039;s provocative speech of Who taught you to hate yourself? I create a self-portrait using mural-like pigments, intricate line work, and iconography as a form of resistance and self-reclamation.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Guo, Haiming]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2026]]></dcterms:date>
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