{"id":45,"date":"2016-11-25T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T09:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/?p=45"},"modified":"2017-01-23T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T11:59:36","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/2016\/11\/25\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hi, \u4f60\u597d, Hallo and welcome to my blog!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To start off, I\u2019ll give a bit of an introduction of myself.<br \/>\nMy name is Clara Zhijin, I\u2019m a 20 year old Communication Media student at Bournemouth University.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I\u2019m a Swiss-born Chinese and grew up in Zurich for the first part of my life and lived in Shanghai\u00a0for my second half.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As a person with a cross-cultural background I\u2019ve noticed how people from different cultures have various social and cultural interpretations of skin colours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On my blog I\u2019ll be focusing on the social and cultural meaning of skin colours, how people from different countries perceive it. Also I will focus on how the Internet and social media influence colourism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Furthermore, I will use this blog to raise awareness on whitewashing\u00a0of Asian characters and how social media influences it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-image-53\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/11\/IMG_4400-2-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"img_4400\" width=\"250\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/11\/IMG_4400-2-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/11\/IMG_4400-2-768x720.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/11\/IMG_4400-2-1024x960.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2016\/11\/IMG_4400-2.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And here is a very blurry picture of myself &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Any comments, debates are welcome and if you happen to like my posts, please share and like!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you and happy reading \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, \u4f60\u597d, Hallo and welcome to my blog! To start off, I\u2019ll give a bit of an introduction of myself. My name is Clara Zhijin, I\u2019m a 20 year old Communication Media student at Bournemouth University. I\u2019m a Swiss-born Chinese and grew up in Zurich for the first part of my life and lived in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/2016\/11\/25\/about-me\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/clarachen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}