{"id":33245,"date":"2021-06-18T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/18\/chinese-academic-suspended-for-advocating-polygamy"},"modified":"2021-06-18T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T04:00:01","slug":"chinese-academic-suspended-for-advocating-polygamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33245","title":{"rendered":"Chinese academic suspended for advocating polygamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bao Yinan from  East China University of Political Science and Law accused over WeChat statements<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese academic has been suspended by his university after he advocated polygamy on his personal WeChat account, sparking a new discussion around China\u2019s evolving attitudes towards sex.<\/p>\n<p>Bao Yinan, a legal researcher at the prestigious East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, was accused by his employer of \u201cmaking wrong statements\u201d. The university has now suspended all his teaching activity and formed a \u201cspecial working group\u201d to investigate the matter, it said in a statement at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/18\/chinese-academic-suspended-for-advocating-polygamy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bao Yinan from  East China University of Political Science and Law accused over WeChat statementsA Chinese academic has been suspended by his university after he advocated polygamy on his personal WeChat account, sparking a new discussion around China\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,458,50,457,78,1581,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-life-and-style","category-relationships","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\/33245","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33246,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33245\/revisions\/33246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}