{"id":12495,"date":"2019-12-27T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/27\/nursing-homes-win-over-shanghai-nimbys-baking-lessons-china"},"modified":"2019-12-27T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:00:25","slug":"nursing-homes-win-over-shanghai-feng-shui-nimbys-with-baking-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12495","title":{"rendered":"Nursing homes win over Shanghai feng shui nimbys with baking lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pushback against China\u2019s initiative to build 200 homes sparks creative response<\/p>\n<p>Kang Jian Shouchang Fang nursing home in Shanghai has gone to considerable lengths to placate neighbours who wish it had never been built in the first place \u2013 laying on baking lessons, lectures on staying healthy and monthly meetings with neighbourhood representatives. Other such homes offer yoga and play areas for children.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai, like many Chinese cities, is facing a rapidly ageing population and few facilities to care for elderly people. But in recent years, it has also become the scene of a wave of \u201cnimby\u201d (not-in-my-backyard) protests pushing back against a government initiative to build 200 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shweilao.cn\/smz-views\/cms\/cmsDetail?uuid=3b9315e0-70fd-4712-bb65-7ef2201076b9\">new community nursing homes<\/a> by 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/27\/nursing-homes-win-over-shanghai-nimbys-baking-lessons-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushback against China\u2019s initiative to build 200 homes sparks creative responseKang Jian Shouchang Fang nursing home in Shanghai has gone to considerable lengths to placate neighbours who wish it had never been built in the first place \u2013 laying on baki&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":805,"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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/12495","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\/805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12496,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12495\/revisions\/12496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}