{"id":33592,"date":"2021-06-30T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/30\/making-china-great-again-pomp-and-propaganda-as-ccp-marks-centenary"},"modified":"2021-06-30T23:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:00:40","slug":"making-china-great-again-pomp-and-propaganda-as-ccp-marks-centenary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33592","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Making China great again\u2019: pomp and propaganda as CCP marks centenary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messages of Beijing\u2019s \u2018invincibility\u2019 have been spread far and wide as party approaches its 100th birthday<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1921, 13 young men severely disillusioned by China\u2019s post-imperial development gathered in Shanghai to form a communist party. On 23 July, they convened in Shanghai\u2019s French Concession and held the first \u201cnational congress\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>None of them would have thought that in 30 years\u2019 time the organisation they had founded would rule the nation, or that in 100 years\u2019 time it would be the world\u2019s largest political party, with nearly 92 million members \u2013 today also an enigma to many outsiders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/30\/making-china-great-again-pomp-and-propaganda-as-ccp-marks-centenary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messages of Beijing\u2019s \u2018invincibility\u2019 have been spread far and wide as party approaches its 100th birthdayIn the summer of 1921, 13 young men severely disillusioned by China\u2019s post-imperial development gathered in Shanghai to form a communist party. On&#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":[41,50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/33592","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=33592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33593,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33592\/revisions\/33593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}