{"id":25757,"date":"2020-12-17T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T00:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/17\/erase-our-names-pop-song-about-domestic-violence-breaks-taboos-in-china"},"modified":"2020-12-17T09:27:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T00:27:05","slug":"erase-our-names-pop-song-about-domestic-violence-breaks-taboos-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25757","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Erase our names&#8217;: pop song about domestic violence breaks taboos in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Song by Tan Weiwei, one of the nation\u2019s favourite performers, appears to reference high-profile instances of violence against women<\/p>\n<p>In the torrent of comments below the video of Tan Weiwei\u2019s latest single, one summed up the burgeoning anger of Chinese women: \u201cThe roar of the times should not be buried. This is a war song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the past six months Tan, one of China\u2019s most popular singers, has been releasing singles from her album 3811. The songs tell the stories of women: a taxi driver, a charity worker, a single mother, a 60-year-old woman who cannot read. But it is her latest single that has made the biggest impact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/china-metoo-movement-gets-its-moment-in-court-as-sexual-harassment-case-begins\">arriving at a key moment<\/a> in China\u2019s reckoning with gender-based violence and harassment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/17\/erase-our-names-pop-song-about-domestic-violence-breaks-taboos-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song by Tan Weiwei, one of the nation\u2019s favourite performers, appears to reference high-profile instances of violence against womenIn the torrent of comments below the video of Tan Weiwei\u2019s latest single, one summed up the burgeoning anger of Chinese w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,934,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-domestic-violence","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\/25757","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25758,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25757\/revisions\/25758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}