{"id":14856,"date":"2024-03-25T11:18:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/?post_type=profile&p=14856"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:20:36","slug":"yanjun-hong","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/profile\/yanjun-hong\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanjun Hong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yanjun Hong<\/strong> holds a Bachelor’s degree with a double major in Hospitality Management from the Northern Arizona University and Shanghai Business School. She earned the MA in Preservation Studies with a concentration in Museum Practice in May 2025.\u00a0 Yanjun comes from Shanghai on China\u2019s east coast at the southern estuary of the Yangtze river. Shanghai is the country\u2019s biggest city and its\u00a0 economic center, and has a rich cultural heritage. Yanjun has been motivated to enter the preservation field by her passion for the UNESCO World Heritage listed Mogoa Caves<\/a> at Dunhuang <\/span>in the Gansu Province and along the ancient Silk Road<\/a>, which are famous for their Buddhist murals. She is eager to learn how to integrate mural preservation with interpretation and exhibitions and aims to contribute to presenting this exquisite artistic treasure to the public in contemporary ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Big Fangpang Castle at the Yumen Pass in Dunhuang, Gansu, and part of the UNESCO World Heritage site of the “Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang’an-Tianshan Corridor” (Photo: Yanjun Hong).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Singing Sand Dunes and Cresent Lake in Dunhuang, Gansu (Photo: Yanjun Hong).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":21635,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21635"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15423,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14856\/revisions\/15423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/preservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}