{"id":35065,"date":"2021-08-11T11:19:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T02:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/11\/china-to-ban-karaoke-songs-with-content-that-endangers-national-unity"},"modified":"2021-08-11T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T02:19:58","slug":"china-to-ban-karaoke-songs-with-illegal-content-that-endangers-national-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35065","title":{"rendered":"China to ban karaoke songs with \u2018illegal content\u2019 that endangers national unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s nearly 50,000 venues will be encouraged to provide \u2018healthy\u2019 songs rather than those threatening territorial integrity or religious policies<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>China will establish a blacklist of karaoke songs to ban those containing \u201cillegal content\u201d from karaoke venues across the country starting from 1 October, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said banned content would include that which endangers national unity, sovereignty or territorial integrity, violates state religious policies by propagating cults or superstitions, or which encourages illegal activities such as gambling and drugs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/11\/china-to-ban-karaoke-songs-with-content-that-endangers-national-unity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s nearly 50,000 venues will be encouraged to provide \u2018healthy\u2019 songs rather than those threatening territorial integrity or religious policiesChina will establish a blacklist of karaoke songs to ban those containing \u201cillegal content\u201d from karaoke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35066,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065\/revisions\/35066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}