{"id":30543,"date":"2021-04-03T15:21:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/03\/china-launches-musical-in-bid-to-counter-uyghur-abuse-allegations"},"modified":"2021-04-03T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:21:13","slug":"china-launches-musical-in-bid-to-counter-uyghur-abuse-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30543","title":{"rendered":"China launches musical in bid to counter Uyghur abuse allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is attempting to draw attention away from reports it is holding at least one million in Xinjiang internment camps <\/p>\n<p>A new state-produced musical set in Xinjiang inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster \u201cLa La Land\u201d has hit China\u2019s cinemas, portraying a rural idyll of ethnic cohesion devoid of repression, mass surveillance and even the Islam of its majority Uyghur population.<\/p>\n<p>China is on an elaborate PR offensive to rebrand the north-western region <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/us-is-deeply-disturbed-by-reports-of-systematic-in-chinas-uighurxinjiang-camps\">where the United States <\/a>and other western nationals and human rights groups say genocide has been inflicted on the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/03\/china-launches-musical-in-bid-to-counter-uyghur-abuse-allegations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is attempting to draw attention away from reports it is holding at least one million in Xinjiang internment camps A new state-produced musical set in Xinjiang inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster \u201cLa La Land\u201d has hit China\u2019s cinemas, portrayin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30543","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30544,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30543\/revisions\/30544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}