{"id":36247,"date":"2021-09-01T14:24:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/01\/chinas-children-start-first-day-schooled-in-xi-jinping-thought"},"modified":"2021-09-01T14:24:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:24:56","slug":"chinas-children-start-first-day-schooled-in-xi-jinping-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36247","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s children start first day schooled in \u2018Xi Jinping thought\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese president\u2019s political ideology is incorporated into the national curriculum as the new school year begins<\/p>\n<p>Chinese pupils returned to school on Wednesday with new textbooks peppered with \u201cXi Jinping thought\u201d, as the Communist party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and raise a new generation of patriots.<\/p>\n<p>The education ministry has said it will incorporate Xi\u2019s vaguely defined political ideology into the national curriculum, from primary schools to graduate programmes, at the start of the new school year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/01\/chinas-children-start-first-day-schooled-in-xi-jinping-thought\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese president\u2019s political ideology is incorporated into the national curriculum as the new school year beginsChinese pupils returned to school on Wednesday with new textbooks peppered with \u201cXi Jinping thought\u201d, as the Communist party aims to ex&#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":[50,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36247","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=36247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36248,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36247\/revisions\/36248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}