{"id":11963,"date":"2019-12-09T20:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/book-burning-by-chinese-county-library-sparks-fury"},"modified":"2019-12-09T20:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T11:02:22","slug":"book-burning-by-chinese-county-library-sparks-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11963","title":{"rendered":"Book burning by Chinese county library sparks fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blaze complying with ministry directive meant for schools harks back to Qin dynasty and Nazi Germany, critics say<\/p>\n<p>A county library in north-western China has been criticised for burning books in line with a nationwide cull of \u201cillegal\u201d or \u201cimproper\u201d materials used in school libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Reports and photos of two women burning a pile of books outside the Zhenyuan county library in Gansu province emerged at the weekend. According to Chinese media, an article on the county\u2019s website detailed a \u201cremoval and destruction\u201d cleanup at the end of October, focusing on illegal, religious, and biased books.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/09\/book-burning-by-chinese-county-library-sparks-fury\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaze complying with ministry directive meant for schools harks back to Qin dynasty and Nazi Germany, critics sayA county library in north-western China has been criticised for burning books in line with a nationwide cull of \u201cillegal\u201d or \u201cimproper\u201d mat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,511,458,50,71,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-censorship","category-china","category-culture","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11964,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions\/11964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}