{"id":39834,"date":"2015-02-05T02:29:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39834"},"modified":"2015-02-05T02:29:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T02:29:28","slug":"interview-jason-fung-author-of-beyond-eurasian-and-hapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39834","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: Jason Fung, Author of \u2018Beyond Eurasian and Hapa\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hapamama.com\/2015\/02\/02\/interview-jason-fung-author-beyond-eurasian-hapa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>INTERVIEW: Jason Fung, Author of \u2018Beyond Eurasian and Hapa\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hapamama.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food<\/a><br \/>\n2015-02-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hapamama.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Grace Hwang Lynch<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>I recently had a chance to interview <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jfung1\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Fung<\/a>, author of the upcoming book <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/publishizer.com\/beyond-eurasian-and-hapa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Eurasian and Hapa<\/a><em>. Fung is a 34-year-old mixed-race (Chinese and Caucasian) person who went to high school and college in the U.S. is currently living in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hong_Kong\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong<\/a>. His book draws upon his own family experiences, as well as history, to examine the different terms we use to describe multiracial Asians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HM: What are your thoughts about the terms \u201cEurasian\u201d and \u201cHapa\u201d? How are they good descriptors and how do they fall short?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JF<\/strong>: These terms are really broad, and mean different things to different people.<\/p>\n<p>For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macau\" target=\"_blank\">Macau<\/a> has Eurasians; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a> has Eurasians (aka Anglo-Indians); Hong Kong and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sri_Lanka\" target=\"_blank\">Sri Lanka<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burma\" target=\"_blank\">Burma<\/a> have Eurasians. There are other definitions\u00a0for the term, but as far as I define it \u201cEurasian\u201d means one thing: a bloodline traceable to original European colonials. Macau Eurasians, for example, see themselves as utterly distinctive. Even if you are Portuguese-Chinese mixed they still won\u2019t accept you as \u201cEurasian\u201d by their standards if you were not from the accepted colonial bloodlines.There are plenty of fascinating \u201cEurasian\u201d stories, surrounded by a rich material culture but \u201cEurasian\u201d is too singular and closed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHapa\u201d is a term I really want to like. I really do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/hapamama.com\/2015\/02\/02\/interview-jason-fung-author-beyond-eurasian-hapa\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERVIEW: Jason Fung, Author of \u2018Beyond Eurasian and Hapa\u2019 Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2015-02-02 Grace Hwang Lynch I recently had a chance to interview Jason Fung, author of the upcoming book Beyond Eurasian and Hapa. Fung is a 34-year-old mixed-race (Chinese and Caucasian) person who went to high school and college in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,395,13743,8],"tags":[18923,18925,18924,19270],"class_list":["post-39834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-autobiography","category-interviews","category-media-archive","tag-grace-hwang-lynch","tag-hapa-mama","tag-hapa-mama-asian-fusion-family-and-food","tag-jason-fung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}