{"id":45127,"date":"2016-01-17T01:43:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T01:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45127"},"modified":"2016-10-17T01:06:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T01:06:31","slug":"crossing-from-guangdong-a-poem-sarah-howe-tedxharvardcollege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45127","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Crossing from Guangdong:&#8221; A Poem | Sarah Howe | TEDxHarvardCollege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hFIQyPEnfLg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Crossing from Guangdong:&#8221; A Poem | Sarah Howe | TEDxHarvardCollege<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsT0YIqwnpJCM-mx7-gSA4Q\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx Talks<\/a><br \/>\n2015-12-02<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hFIQyPEnfLg?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The poet is always in a foreign country. Poet <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahhowepoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Howe<\/a> shares a beautiful, melodic poem about crossing borders to find the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a> her mother left behind during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Communist_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\">Communist Revolution<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45082\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45082\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Loop of Jade<\/em><\/a>, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hong_Kong\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong<\/a> in 1983 to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> as a child. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chapbook\" target=\"_blank\">chapbook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk\/publications.html#chinese\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia<\/em><\/a>, won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. She has performed her work at festivals internationally and on BBC Radio 3 &amp; 4. She is the founding editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praccrit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Prac Crit<\/em><\/a>, an online journal of poetry and criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Crossing from Guangdong:&#8221; A Poem | Sarah Howe | TEDxHarvardCollege TEDx Talks 2015-12-02 The poet is always in a foreign country. Poet Sarah Howe shares a beautiful, melodic poem about crossing borders to find the China her mother left behind during the Communist Revolution. Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8,842],"tags":[221,22640,22600,17453,22639],"class_list":["post-45127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-videos","tag-china","tag-guangdong","tag-sarah-howe","tag-tedx-talks","tag-tedxharvardcollege"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45127","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=45127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45134,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45127\/revisions\/45134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}