{"id":48519,"date":"2016-07-31T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48519"},"modified":"2016-07-31T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T21:00:09","slug":"for-me-it-represents-the-broken-bloodline-of-my-chinese-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48519","title":{"rendered":"For me, it represents the broken bloodline of my Chinese inheritance&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jade\" target=\"_blank\">Jade<\/a> bracelets are meant to protect Chinese toddlers when they\u2019re learning to walk, like talismans \u2013 if the baby falls down, the idea is that the circle of stone will smash rather than the child be hurt. For me, it represents the broken bloodline of my Chinese inheritance \u2013 disrupted by the fact that my mother was adopted as an orphan \u2013 but also my efforts to reintegrate the Chinese half of my identity,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahhowepoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Sarah] Howe<\/a> says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clare Tyrrell-Morin, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48125\" target=\"_blank\">Prize-winning Hong Kong-born poet Sarah Howe makes verse of city\u2019s Basic Law<\/a>,\u201d <em>South China Morning Post<\/em>, July 7, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/culture\/arts-entertainment\/article\/1986620\/prize-winning-hong-kong-born-poet-sarah-howe-makes-verse\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/culture\/arts-entertainment\/article\/1986620\/prize-winning-hong-kong-born-poet-sarah-howe-makes-verse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJade bracelets are meant to protect Chinese toddlers when they\u2019re learning to walk, like talismans \u2013 if the baby falls down, the idea is that the circle of stone will smash rather than the child be hurt. For me, it represents the broken bloodline of my Chinese inheritance \u2013 disrupted by the fact that my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24424,22600,17670],"class_list":["post-48519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-clare-tyrrell-morin","tag-sarah-howe","tag-south-china-morning-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48519","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=48519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48520,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48519\/revisions\/48520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}