{"id":7,"date":"2024-03-21T07:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T07:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2024-05-10T23:34:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T03:34:44","slug":"brief-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/brief-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Where does a family really come from? It’s a question that compels me more and more each year. There is a simple answer in my own case: my family come from China. Rather than leave it at that, I want to uncover the specific and most distant details of my heritage- the different lands, communities we originate from and the events that shape us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a variety of predominantly rural origins, a history of violent revolution and change, natural disasters, and unfamiliar territory create considerable barriers for this examination into the past. After all, I was born, raised, and educated completely in America. I speak only a bit of Chinese and cannot read or write anything besides numbers. So I must enlist help<\/em>. And I am extraordinarily fortunate to have it, through countless friends and family who call China their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through travel, interviews, searching and investigating, my overarching goal is to record for the just sake of preservation and write untold stories that capture a spirit of another time and place. Here, I organize a part of my “project” through pictures and posts on China (and sometimes other things).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where does a family really come from? It’s a question that compels me more and more each year. There is a simple answer in my own case: my family come from China. Rather than leave it at that, I want to uncover the specific and most distant details of my heritage- the different lands, communities […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miltonliu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}