{"id":996,"date":"2018-09-09T23:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T03:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/?p=996"},"modified":"2018-09-09T23:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T03:14:58","slug":"hba-a-time-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2018\/hba-a-time-of-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"HBA: A Time of Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was thrilled to have the opportunity to go study Mandarin in China, I was not expecting my stay in China to be so transformative and educational and for me as it actually was.<br \/>\nI ignorantly thought to myself as I was preparing for my summer: <em>I have been to Beijing before. I am Asian American. I went to Chinese Sunday school. I have some knowledge about Chinese culture. I already know what to expect.<\/em><br \/>\nHa.<br \/>\nLittle did I know, being in a foreign country for nine weeks allowed me to learn more about America, Asian American identity, and myself through the perspective of people from a nation of rich history, complex cultural traditions.<br \/>\nNever before did I see the unique position China is in: politically, economically, socially, culturally\u2014or at least to the extent that I did during my summer there.<br \/>\nTo recap my 2018 Summer studying Mandarin at Harvard Beijing Academy, I\u2019ve decided to devote blog posts to several themes that defined my experiences in Beijing: American-ness, the Chinese perception of America, language learning, and much more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was thrilled to have the opportunity to go study Mandarin in China, I was not expecting my stay in China to be so transformative and educational and for me as it actually was. I ignorantly thought to myself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2018\/hba-a-time-of-learning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2018"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}