{"id":1,"date":"2024-01-09T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/?p=1"},"modified":"2024-01-10T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T01:58:00","slug":"hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/2024\/01\/09\/hello\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction :)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Everybody\uff01<\/strong>Please allow me to make a brief self-introduction. My name is Cici Zheng and I am a fourth-year student, majoring in Asian Studies. I rarely read books in my spare time, and I usually choose to watch dramas, singing, or do some outdoor activities(e.g. hiking).\u00a0Since, my daily school and part-time job have taken up most of my time, so I spend my free time avoiding things that require the use of my brain and thinking, so that my brain can be in a state of emptiness as much as possible. Therefore, this class is not only a way for me to fulfill the literature requirement of the arts department, but also a way to help me read more. For me, reading should be a process of developing independent thought and learning\/discovering new things. However, people today live in an impatient, fast-paced, and internet-based society, where our attention is often drawn away by fragmented information. So, my expectation for this class is that it can bring back my interest in reading. Because, I was also a little girl who loved to read when I was little, I even read Romance of the Three Kingdoms<\/em> secretly during my Chinese class, LOL. Moreover, when I was little, I used to go to the public library on weekends to read books that I was interested in, and in a way, it made me feel satisfied from the inside.\u00a0Therefore, I feel that this class will allow me to pick up the habit of reading again. (Although, I can’t guarantee that every book will be one that I like and enjoy reading. But at least it will allow me to be able to take a moment to feel the written word again.) In addition, the contracted curriculum is a format that I have never experienced before, and I think it will be a very interesting course. Not only is it a refreshing change from the rigid, typical education system, but it also provides students with plenty of options. I am very much looking forward to this course! Regarding the question “where is the ‘Romance World’ ‘”, I subconsciously thought about European history and tried to remember a few territories that were once ruled by Rome. After watching the lecture video, I realized that Romance literature is a complex topic because it is connected to more complex issues of race, languages, culture, and thought\/ideology, religions, ects. So, I’m very much looking forward to being able to read again to think about and discover how these questions are presented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello Everybody\uff01Please allow me to make a brief self-introduction. My name is Cici Zheng and I am a fourth-year student, majoring in Asian Studies. I rarely read books in my spare time, and I usually choose to watch dramas, singing, or do some outdoor activities(e.g. hiking).\u00a0Since, my daily school and part-time job have taken up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introduction","tag-introduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ccrmst202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}