{"id":13789,"date":"2022-03-23T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=13789"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:57:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:57:01","slug":"an-evening-with-author-gish-jen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2022\/events\/an-evening-with-author-gish-jen\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with author Gish Jen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3\/23 at 7.00 pm in Bell Hall Auditorium, Centerstage is hosting author Gish Jen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/centerstage\">https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/centerstage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A true Renaissance woman, Jen explores our changing world in her nonfiction as well. In\u00a0<em>The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap<\/em>, Jen offers a provocative and essential look at the different ideas Eastern and Western cultures have about self and society. Drawing on personal experience, a wealth of illuminating anecdotes, and insights from cultural psychology, Jen enriches our understanding of ourselves and our world. Writing in\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0novelist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyceumagency.com\/speakers\/lisa-see\/\">Lisa See<\/a>\u00a0observed<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u201c<\/em>Gish Jen has once again taken the universal and made it personal, and vice versa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody\u2019s having more fun with American diversity than Gish Jen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014The Boston Globe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3\/23 at 7.00 pm in Bell Hall Auditorium, Centerstage is hosting author Gish Jen. https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/centerstage A true Renaissance woman, Jen explores our changing world in her nonfiction as well. In\u00a0The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap, Jen offers a provocative and essential look at the different ideas Eastern and Western cultures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-13789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/03\/2022-03-23_623b33d84a8d2_GishJencreditBassoCannarsa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13803,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789\/revisions\/13803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}