{"id":19,"date":"2019-05-23T00:38:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T07:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2023-08-09T18:06:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T01:06:48","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21\" style=\"padding: 0 15px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/files\/2019\/05\/UBC_20171002_0850BenjaminCheung7-e1558597650706-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/files\/2019\/05\/UBC_20171002_0850BenjaminCheung7-e1558597650706-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/files\/2019\/05\/UBC_20171002_0850BenjaminCheung7-e1558597650706-768x1052.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/files\/2019\/05\/UBC_20171002_0850BenjaminCheung7-e1558597650706-748x1024.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome! My name is Benjamin Cheung, and I am a non-tenure track lecturer, and the Indigenous Initiatives Coordinator in the <a href=\"http:\/\/psych.ubc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Psychology<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/acam.arts.ubc.ca\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Canadian and Asian Migration program<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of British Columbia<\/a>, located on traditional, ancestral, and unceded <a href=\"http:\/\/musqueam.bc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam)<\/a> territory.<\/p>\n<p>I am a settler from Hong Kong, a 1.5 generation Hong Kong Canadian who sometimes gets confused when switching between speaking English\/Cantonese\/Mandarin. Between my fondness for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straight.com\/food\/1020376\/beginners-guide-having-dim-sum-metro-vancouver\">dimsum<\/a> and my penchant for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/riots-erupt-in-vancouver-after-canucks-loss-1.993707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hockey<\/a>, my interests and behaviours are every bit as culturally <del datetime=\"2019-05-23T07:19:28+00:00\">confused<\/del> mixed as my cultural identity.<\/p>\n<p>Please explore the rest of my site, and feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/contact-me\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">contact me<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>*Note: I cannot supervise students for graduate studies. If you are interested in joining our department for graduate studies, I encourage you to take a look at the amazing array of other faculty members in our department <a href=\"https:\/\/psych.ubc.ca\/people\/?group=core-faculty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! My name is Benjamin Cheung, and I am a non-tenure track lecturer, and the Indigenous Initiatives Coordinator in the Department of Psychology and the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration program at the University of British Columbia, located on traditional, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59280,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bycheung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}