{"id":1426,"date":"2008-10-28T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2024-07-08T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:25:17","slug":"chinese-subgroup-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/10\/28\/chinese-subgroup-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips Fellow to discuss research into Chinese subgroup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lina Kong, a sophomore from Rose Hill, Mauritius, presents her Phillips Fellowship-funded research in a talk titled, <em>Crosscultural Study of Mauritian and Chinese Cultures through the Hakka Linkage<\/em> at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Bates College&#8217;s Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-753-6952.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kong wanted to learn more about the Hakka culture, a subgroup of China&#8217;s dominant Han people, and compare the influence of that culture in a city of the new China and in Mauritius, with the ultimate goal of better understanding her own identity as a Hakka. She wants to raise awareness about the danger of culture loss due to acculturalism, where new immigrants tend to integrate the surrounding culture as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Phillips-Student-Fellowships.xml\">Phillips Student Fellowships<\/a> were begun in 1999 by Charles F. Phillips, the fourth president of Bates, and his wife Evelyn Minard Phillips, with a $9 million endowment gift. These fellowships are granted to students who create exceptionally good international or cross-cultural projects that focus on research, service-learning or career exploration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kong wanted to learn more about the Hakka culture, a subgroup of China&#8217;s dominant Han people, and compare the influence of that culture in a city of the new China and in Mauritius, with the ultimate goal of better understanding her own identity as a Hakka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[10774,6979],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-asia","tag-phillips-student-fellowship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93048,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/93048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}