Portfolio-Yuxin Li by Yuxin Li

YUXIN LI

Portfolio & CV 2016-2020

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Royal College of Art Master of Interior Design Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology Bachelor of Arts in Environment Design National Taiwan Normal University Exchange student

CONCEPT IDEA ILLUSTRATION & BRIEF

which for people in the LAT relationship. The

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Hotel experience

A hotel experience, situated in Berwick street,

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HOME ALONE

project is working with a local developer, testing this idea of the potential of creating a LAT neighborhood across London.

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The research focused on the LAT (living apart together) lifestyle, which

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refers to couples having an intimate relationship but choosing to live at

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separate addresses. As a new, emerging family form, LAT relationships may become a viable alternative to ideas of traditional households, intimacy and

Project Title: Home slone

commitment. Studies in a range of western countries have shown that about

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10% of adults are in LAT relationships. In Britain, almost 50% of LAT couples

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are in the youngest age group (18â&#x20AC;&#x201C;24).

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As a way to achieve a balance between independence and emotional

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commitment, LAT relationships also come with risks such as the lack of intimacy, poor communication, and negative impact on finances, especially among the younger generation. A significant proportion of them faced the dilemma of maintaining LAT relationship and financial issues. The proposed design responds to these issues by creating a unique hotel, which provides the freedom to experience the spatial opportunities and dilemmas of a LAT relationship. This proposal, based on three top floor apartments converted from the existing residences situated in Berwick Street, collaborates with a local developer, aiming to test out the potential of creating a LAT focused neighbourhood in Greater London. Based on the understanding of the need for a balance between the demands of personal life circumstances and the desire for intimacy, the project explores a spatial strategy that would allow guests to configure the hotel experience into 27 different options for domestic space. These spatial options would cater to different needs, wants and desires of the partnership, creating opportunities for living modes of independence, moments of sensual intimacy and configurations for time together. The project aims to explore the potential of the interior as a spatial intervention for examining the realms of intimacy, whilst also opening up a conversation about the opportunities for social life at home.

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Research story

Artefact

Soho is defined as one of the top 10 unhealthiest places to live in Britain. Research indicated however that local residents held a high sense of satisfaction with their living conditions, especially those who live by themselves. This principally was because of the close proximity too amenities in the area. Soho is defined as one of the top 10 unhealthiest places to live in Britain. Research indicated however that local residents held a high sense of satisfaction with their living conditions, especially those who live by themselves. This principally was because of the close proximity too amenities in the area.

As a way of expressing the unique stories, characteristics, and predicaments found in Soho, I developed a narrative artefact to communicate the material, conceptual narrative, and strategy of my project.

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FIG.1-1 Narrative Artefact Model Photograph

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CONTEXT

SITE PLAN

PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY

Berwick street, Soho

Berwick street, Soho & Surrounding Area

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FIG.1-3 Berwick street food market

31 Berwick St

36 Berwick St Soho area

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Broadway street

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Berwick street

Broadway street

20 (m)

Main road

LAT hotel stall

Path road

Berick Market stall

Buildings

Sketch model area

CONTEXT

Berwick street, Soho

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CAD SITE SURVEY

SITE MODEL PHOTOGRAPHS

Existing plans of 36 Berwick street

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LAT hotel

36 Berwick St 33 Berwick St

31 Berwick St

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Berwick market

2 Sketch model area

20 (m)

1.Commercial use(Beauty salon) 2.Residential entrance 3.Residential 4.Residential

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Context Existing program study

Located in Berwick street, Soho

FIG.1-2 Site plan FIG.1-3 Photographic survey FIG.1-4 Site model photograph FIG.1-5 CAD site survey

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CONCEPT

ARTICIPATORY EVENT OUTCOMES

y findings & outcomes

Participatory event outcome

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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

PRECEDENT STUDIES &ANALYSIS Exploring the spatial ideas for intimacy & control

Single cottage 1 person Double bed

Twin cottage 2 person Two single beds

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BED / SITTING ROOM

Guests have the option to stay in one of Family cottage

A ROOM FOR LONDON A room on one of the most visible sites

4 person

One large sofa

six wooden cabins located around the parameter of the room, and all eat a typ-

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ically Finnish breakfast together around

For one artist who wants a sitting area in

a table.

one room and a single bed in the other.

LIFE IN 32 SQM 344 square foot “Domestic Transformer” apartment that can morph into 24 different rooms by sliding furniture and walls.

A couple who want a sitting area in one

in the British capital, where up to two

room and a double bed in the other. Two

people at a time could spend a unique night in an exemplary architectural land-

FOR AN ARTIST IN RES -

Single bed and sofa

people who each want privacy with a single bed and chair in each room.

mark.

Precedent studies

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Schematic development

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Proposal plan

FIG.1-8 Selected apart configuration FIG.1-9 Selected together configuration

FIG.1-10 All Apart Configurations FIG.1-11 All Together Configurations

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27 rooms in one

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24 hours LAT hotel experience

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24 hours LAT hotel experience

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Material investigations

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Detail drawings

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Project â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Inhabitationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; focus on the ways in which people inhabit

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buildings in order to undertake specific activities, and design a Post

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Pub design

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BREXIT PUB

Brexit Pub. Project Title: Inhabitations Dates:

The first step of this project is researching the existing pubs in London.

21.01.19 - 07.03.19

The first Pub I research is The Troubadour, it is a pub with serving cafe food all day in a cozy space with live music. I focus on the different

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surfaces, which is the unique feature of this pub. There are different

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functions in each facade, such as the window facing the street, there is a shelf to display the teapot. The other side is a fake door with the shelf to show the collections. The ceiling is used to hang the materials used to make the instruments and kitchen items. Therefore, the first step of my research focused on the functionality of different facades and how they display items. The second pub is a very elegant and historic pub, named The Star Tavern. On the second floor of the pub, there is a bar, and bookshelves facing each other. My observation is how these two functions are used by the audience in one space, and how they work at a different time of one day. After the initial investigation, I made a series of models to simulate how two functions work by changing of the distance between them and using time as the basic division rule. Additionally, I separate the surface by the functions, such as walls, empty shelves, bars, wines, and books, etc. The result of simulation showed in the Type 1-5, and the simulations are based on the real observations of the existing pub. After this simulation, I applied the conclusions to the site we will design. Since the content of the simulation is all based on the lateral distance change, I also changed the direction from a single lateral to the vertical position. Based on the above research and experiments, my project theme focuses on how the functions of the bar and the library existing in one space, and change over time.

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FIG.1-1 I made a series of models to simulate how two functions work by changing of the distance between them and using time as the basic division rule. Additionally, I separate the surface by the functions, such as walls, empty shelves, bars, wines, and books, etc. The result of simulation showed in the Type 1-5, and the simulations are based on the real observations of the existing pub. FIG.1-1

FIG.1-2 After this simulation, I applied the conclusions to the site we will design. Since the content of the simulation is all based on the lateral distance change, I also changed the direction from a single lateral to the vertical position. Based on the above research and experiments, my project theme focuses on how the functions of the bar and the library existing in one space, and change over time. In practice work, I created a large movable platform that changes from the 9:30 am to 7:30 pm of one day. The one side of the platform is the library area and people can use this area from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm, the other side of the platform is the bar and is allowed to use between 12:30 pm to midnight. The platform is bright yellow, so people can see through the window from outside to know what time is it now, it is also the sign of the pub.

Pub research drawings

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Drawings

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Drawings

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Project ‘Identities’ focus on the consideration of the ways in which

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can create an identity for a space that is appropriate for the proposed

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use and the site conditions. The brief for the project is asking to create a musical instrument shop, and the project will be driven by the

Project Title: Identities - Shelf life

consideration of materials.

Dates: 11.03.19 - 16.05.19

The first step of this project is to choose an example of contemporary music and find out the information that connects to the site and using

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narrative way to develop your thinking. The song I chose named ’Sleep

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sound’, by Jamie Xx, which is an English musician, DJ, record producer, and remixer. ‘Sleep Sound’ is a hypnotic mid-tempo track that feels simultaneously as if it could lull you into a restful sleep or bring you into a pleasant groove. And the music video is about an artist Sofia Mattioli dance along with deaf people from Manchester Deaf Centre. They interacted with her movements while sensing ’the vibrations given off by the song’. The result is a haunting montage of dancers experiencing movement through what they perceive as silence. The instrument I chose is rainstick which mimics the sound of rain. People can feel vibration when they play this instrument. Rainstick is traditionally made from dead cactus tubes with cactus spines hammered to the inside and filled with tiny pebbles. The strategy I use to develop my design is beginning with the structure of rainstick. I made three transparent rainsticks based on the existing structure of this instrument and also create some new way for it.

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Shop design

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INSTRUMENT SHOP

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Self-made Rainstick I made three transparent rainsticks based on the existing structure of this instrument and also create some new way for it.

FIG.2-1 Self-made Rainstick based on the original type FIG.2-2 Self-made Rainstick based on material research FIG.2-3 Self-made Rainstick based on sound research

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Shelf This project is asking design a shelf to display items of musicians. The strategy I use for the shelf is using the similar structure of traditional rainstick to be my shelf. I made an arc shape structure with polycarbonate, and insert wood pins to display items. And the whole body of the shelf is white, making people more focus on the items that be displayed.

FIG.2-4 Sketch of shelf FIG.2-5 Details FIG.2-6 1-1 scale shelf model

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About Materials

About Instrument shop

I tried to find out the materials can give people the feeling of vibration. I did some casting with silicon and resin to try to make some materials with tension. The main material I use for the space is wood(which is the representation of the instrument), silicon (tactile way to show the vibration), polycarbonate( the vision way of showing the feeling of vibration), acrylic(aim to show the structure inside of rainstick), metal(from my experiment of rainstick), etc.

The purpose of the instrument shop is making people perceive the music, instead of hearing it. Try to create a sense of vibration in the space by tactile or visualize the vibration, etc.

FIG.2-7 Material test FIG.2-8 Material board FIG.2-9 1-10 scale model

In addition, the use of polycarbonate at the entrance aims to create a barrier between the inside and outside. I respect the original building, so I retain the existing materials of the site while using the new material to interact with the existing building. I replace some existing floors with silicon, so people can feel the vibration when they enter the interact installation.

I designed a large interactive experience installation on two floors, by changing the scale of the rainstick. When people stand in the center of the space, they can perceive the music by the vibration of the entire installation.

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FIG.2-10 FIG.2-10 manual book FIG.2-11 Drawing

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Project ‘Proximities’ is asked to design the entrance experience and foyer

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of a temporary pop up Christmas Museum, called ‘My story of the story of

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Christmas’, in the blank entrance and courtyard spaces of the building 106

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Museum design

MUSEUM

CHRISTMAS MUSEUM

Commercial Street. Project Title: Proximities Dates:

As for this project, I focus on the traditional ritual of Christmas, which is

19. 11.18 - 10.01.19

decorating the Christmas tree. Christmas tree originates in Northern Europe, usually an evergreen conifer such as spruce, pine or fir, or an artificial tree

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of similar appearance. The custom was developed in medieval Livonia(

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present-day Estonia and Latvia), and in early modern Germany where Protestant Germans brought decorated trees into their homes. It acquired popularity beyond the Lutheran areas of Germany and the Baltic counties during the second half of the 19th century, at first among the upper classes. Through the research I did, I found that the way people decorate the Christmas tree is quite different around the world. For example, people from tropical counties always like to decorate unique trees instead of pine trees. To be specific, people prefer to decorate palm tree in Florida. Banana trees and mango trees are popular in India as a Christmas tradition. As for Africa, the baobab tree is the icon for them, so they always decorate baobab trees when Christmas.

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MUSEUM

For the design part, I took advantage of this interesting phenomenon to create a unique entrance for the Christmas Museum, by decorating different trees as an interactive space. In the entrance, I set up a small display area for the excellent decorations. The decoration is a simple transparent ball that people can draw on it or fill it with their personal items. When passed the display area, there is a reception, a cloakroom, and a small shop. Through the narrow corridor, people can enter the interactive area. As a pop-up space, I use modular, constructible devices

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to interact with special Christmas trees. People can create Christmas decorations in the workshop area on the ground floor. At the same time, the decorative active can be done when they go upstairs by the staircase or ladder. The intention of this design is to take advantage of the most traditional Christmas ritual but to experience different cultures and traditions, making people feel a familiar but completely different Christmas.

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SEAT; noun a thing made for sitting on, such as a chair or a stool.

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DEMOCRACY; noun a system of government by the whole population or

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all the eligible members of a state, typically through

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Furiture design

Furniture design

DEMOCRATIC SEAT

elected representatives. Project Title: Democratic Seat Dates:

For this work we were asking to appropriate an existing â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;seatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that will be

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adapted / reused / modified / changed / developed / adjusted / enhanced to become the eventual outcome.

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GIVE ME A BALCONY Residential design

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emerge, and people’s spiritual needs were gradually outnumbered by their material needs. Nowadays, people are more concerned with the

Project Title: Residential design

requirements of the individual spiritual world, and are beginning to search

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for the impacts of hard to explain and complex theories of individualism

10.2017 - 12.2017

on events in general, further valuing the individual. “A thousand people, a thousand angles” has become the next topic of the 21st century.

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This design focused on balconies representing people’s ordinary

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lives. Through an analysis of the 16 different kinds of personality, the

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After history entered the Post Ford era, individualized needs began to reRESIDENTIAL

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individual habits and behavioural preferences of each personality type are distinguished. However, the 16 kinds of personality are not able to fully present a reproduction of all aspects of personal life, instead acting only as a microcosm of the question of “a thousand people, a thousand angles”.

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NOODLE LAB Retail design

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Nowadays, with the progress of society and the improvement of the standard

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of living of the people, there is an increasing demand for culture by the

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affect consumer behavior. At the same time, consumers may also receive

09.17 - 11.17

cultural satisfaction through specific purchases. Through spending, try to find

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affecting the specific purchase behavior. For example, values and lifestyles

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general public. Consumers as a social person, abstract culture is profoundly Project Title: Retail design

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pasta brand culture through experiential consumption behaviors and transmit

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the spiritual symbols of values, life attitude, aesthetic taste and emotional appeal condensed by Chinese pasta culture. By creating a perfect realm where the material utility and the spirit of the product are highly unified, the restrictions beyond time and space bring consumers more high-level satisfaction.

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ISSEY MIYAKE FLAGSHIP STORE Retail design

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As the main body of deconstruction, space is free to extend its shape by its

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own will. Through the methods of folding, stretching and wrapping, space is painted in three-dimensional space in a planar language to penetrate

Project Title: Retail design

the entire spatial structure. Space is full of energy because of human

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participation.

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With the prevalence of experiential economy, brand flagship store is no longer the main space for retail and display of goods, but as an entity to

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spread the brand culture and connotation, using space language to tell

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the charm of the brand core, the design focuses on the experiential The combination of shopping forms and brand connotation, to build a full brand

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image of the core.

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ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY Architecture

and downs of events in space, and space is no longer confined to threedimensional space, but changes with the conversion of footage and time. Can the lens separate the space? The delicate relationship between

Project Title: Architecture

space and the lens became my focus. Hutong as a mature spatial ecology

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to become my first research object, selected in the alley of six kinds of

07.17 - 09.17

representative objects as a shot to record the alley in the story and the scope of research can be recorded. According to the analysis of the changes of

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its force and range, possibility simulation is made through the processing

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program, and the law and feasibility are found in the simulation as my follow-up design guidance. Suppose the lens can separate the space, the

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Inspired by an accidental viewing process, the lens transition tells the ups

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world ecology can coexist? Iteration through processing repeated the final formation of my program - Ecological Observatory.

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TECENT VIDEO HI A.A DREAM CLUB Graphic design

GRASSHOPPER PRACTICE Programe Practice

Tencent Video Hi A.A dream club

Tencent Video Festival

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Tencent Video Yingyongbao

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YUXIN LI Student

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