{"id":14486,"date":"2020-02-16T04:48:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/15\/xi-critic-professor-this-may-be-last-piece-i-write-words-ring-true"},"modified":"2020-02-16T15:57:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:57:27","slug":"this-may-be-the-last-piece-i-write-now-a-xi-critics-words-ring-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14486","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This may be the last piece I write\u2019: prominent Xi critic has internet cut after house arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive: <\/strong>professor who published stinging criticism of Chinese president was confined to home by guards and barred from social media<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese professor Xu Zhangrun, who published a rare public critique of President Xi Jinping over China\u2019s coronavirus crisis, was placed under house arrest for days, barred from social media and is now cut off from the internet, his friends have told the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Xu\u2019s passionate attack on the government\u2019s system of controls and censorship,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinafile.com\/reporting-opinion\/viewpoint\/viral-alarm-when-fury-overcomes-fear\" title=\"\"> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinafile.com\/reporting-opinion\/viewpoint\/viral-alarm-when-fury-overcomes-fear\" title=\"\">Viral Alarm: When Fury Overcomes Fear<\/a>, was published this month as a powerful debate on freedom of speech convulsed the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/15\/xi-critic-professor-this-may-be-last-piece-i-write-words-ring-true\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: professor who published stinging criticism of Chinese president was confined to home by guards and barred from social mediaThe Chinese professor Xu Zhangrun, who published a rare public critique of President Xi Jinping over China\u2019s coronavir&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"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":[50,1069,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486","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\/992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14525,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions\/14525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}