{"id":21921,"date":"2020-08-21T20:19:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/21\/china-cai-xia-former-party-insider-who-dared-criticise-xi-jinping"},"modified":"2020-08-21T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:19:59","slug":"chinas-cai-xia-former-party-insider-who-dared-criticise-xi-jinping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21921","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Cai Xia: former party insider who dared criticise Xi Jinping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent dissident explains how she came to doubt her fervent beliefs in party orthodoxy <\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1990s, Cai Xia, a devout believer in Chinese communist doctrine, experienced her first moment of doubt.<\/p>\n<p>She was a teacher at the central party school for training cadres when a friend called with some questions. Cai, an expert in Marxism and Chinese communist party theory, enthusiastically answered.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/21\/china-cai-xia-former-party-insider-who-dared-criticise-xi-jinping\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent dissident explains how she came to doubt her fervent beliefs in party orthodoxy In the mid-1990s, Cai Xia, a devout believer in Chinese communist doctrine, experienced her first moment of doubt.She was a teacher at the central party school fo&#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":[41,50,662,457,53,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-communism","category-freedom-of-speech","category-human-rights","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\/21921","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=21921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21922,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21921\/revisions\/21922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}