{"id":21224,"date":"2020-08-01T10:55:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T01:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/01\/like-in-the-cultural-revolution-hong-kongs-educators-fear-being-purged"},"modified":"2020-08-01T10:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T01:55:55","slug":"like-in-the-cultural-revolution-hong-kongs-educators-fear-being-purged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21224","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Like in the Cultural Revolution&#8217;: Hong Kong&#8217;s educators fear being purged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers and professors face crackdown as authorities fight for the minds of an antagonistic young generation<\/p>\n<p>For thousands of university professors and teachers in Hong Kong, the coming weeks will be a nervous time as they prepare for a new academic year.<\/p>\n<p>In just a month\u2019s time, universities, schools and even kindergartens across the city will be placed under unprecedented scrutiny as they resume classes for the first time after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">the national security law passed in July<\/a>, amid calls for the \u201cbad apples\u201d among teachers to be purged.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/01\/like-in-the-cultural-revolution-hong-kongs-educators-fear-being-purged\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers and professors face crackdown as authorities fight for the minds of an antagonistic young generationFor thousands of university professors and teachers in Hong Kong, the coming weeks will be a nervous time as they prepare for a new academic ye&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"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":[41,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224","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\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21225,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions\/21225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}