{"id":1017,"date":"2018-04-20T05:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T01:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2018-04-20T05:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T01:40:15","slug":"defying-the-fate-the-story-of-a-chinese-immigrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Defying the Fate: the Story of a Chinese Immigrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Dr. Shouan Pan<\/h2>\n<p>We were honored to have Dr. Shouan Pan as the featured speaker of our community forum on April 15th. Born and raised in Mainland China, Dr. Shouan Pan is the current chancellor Seattle College, is a veteran community college educator of over 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Not only born into a deprived Chinese family, Shouan was once predicted \u201cnot<br \/>\namounting to anything\u201d in life because of the political circumstances he and his<br \/>\nfamily faced. After immigrating to the United Stated in 1985, he has completed<br \/>\ngraduate education\u00a0and devoted his life to the mission of America\u2019s community colleges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photos-012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1019\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photos-012.jpg\" alt=\"photos 012\" width=\"1772\" height=\"1181\" srcset=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photos-012.jpg 1772w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photos-012-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photos-012-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1772px) 100vw, 1772px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photos-072.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1018\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photos-072.jpg\" alt=\"photos 072\" width=\"2362\" height=\"1575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photos-072.jpg 2362w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photos-072-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/photos-072-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2362px) 100vw, 2362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Shouan Pan We were honored to have Dr. Shouan Pan as the featured speaker of our community forum on April 15th. Born and raised in Mainland China, Dr. Shouan Pan is the current chancellor Seattle College, is a veteran community college educator of over 25 years. Not only born into a deprived Chinese family, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/?p=1017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defying the Fate: the Story of a Chinese Immigrant<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/oralhist\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}