{"id":40001,"date":"2021-12-23T03:08:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/22\/hong-kong-memorial-to-tiananmen-victims-may-be-imminently-removed"},"modified":"2021-12-23T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T05:10:31","slug":"hong-kong-memorial-to-tiananmen-victims-may-be-imminently-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40001","title":{"rendered":"Outcry as Hong Kong University memorial to Tiananmen Square victims is removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Site of the Pillar of Shame at the city\u2019s oldest university is under guard after workmen dismantled statue<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s oldest university has removed a statue mourning those killed in Beijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site where it has stood for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The move prompted criticism of the university and the Hong Kong authorities, with academics and experts saying the removal of the sculpture was an attempt at \u201crewriting history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/22\/hong-kong-memorial-to-tiananmen-victims-may-be-imminently-removed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site of the Pillar of Shame at the city\u2019s oldest university is under guard after workmen dismantled statueHong Kong\u2019s oldest university has removed a statue mourning those killed in Beijing\u2019s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2121,"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":[546,91,41,50,48,80,1065,431,694,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-sculpture","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","category-universities","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\/40001","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\/2121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40037,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40001\/revisions\/40037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}