{"id":36116,"date":"2021-08-29T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/29\/chinese-university-appears-to-ask-for-lists-of-lgbtq-students-for-investigation"},"modified":"2021-08-29T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T00:35:00","slug":"chinese-university-appears-to-ask-for-lists-of-lgbtq-students-for-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36116","title":{"rendered":"Chinese university appears to ask for lists of LGBTQ+ students for \u2018investigation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survey by Shanghai University that asked colleges to research the political stance and \u2018state of mind\u2019 of members of LGBTQ+ communities has sparked alarm<\/p>\n<p>A well-known Chinese university appears to have asked its colleges to make lists of their LGBTQ+ students and report on their \u201cstate of mind\u201d, according to a purported internal directive published online on both Chinese and foreign social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai University has not confirmed the request or responded to queries about its intention, but it has sparked alarm among young Chinese people, coming after a crackdown on campus groups and organisations supporting LGBTQ+ and feminist communities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/29\/chinese-university-appears-to-ask-for-lists-of-lgbtq-students-for-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survey by Shanghai University that asked colleges to research the political stance and \u2018state of mind\u2019 of members of LGBTQ+ communities has sparked alarmA well-known Chinese university appears to have asked its colleges to make lists of their LGBTQ+ st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2500,"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":[41,50,72,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-lgbt-rights","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\/36116","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\/2500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36117,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36116\/revisions\/36117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}