{"id":40056,"date":"2021-12-24T12:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/24\/two-hong-kong-universities-remove-tiananmen-artworks-after-pillar-of-shame-dismantled"},"modified":"2021-12-24T12:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:22:39","slug":"two-hong-kong-universities-remove-tiananmen-artworks-after-pillar-of-shame-dismantled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40056","title":{"rendered":"Two Hong Kong universities remove Tiananmen artworks after Pillar of Shame dismantled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CUHK\u2019s Goddess of Democracy and a sculpture at Lingnan University were removed overnight as authorities move to erase memorials to the massacre<\/p>\n<p>Two more Hong Kong universities have removed sculptures marking Beijing\u2019s deadly 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square democracy protesters, as authorities move to erase memorials to the event.<\/p>\n<p>The removals come a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/22\/hong-kong-memorial-to-tiananmen-victims-may-be-imminently-removed\">Hong Kong\u2019s oldest university took down a statue <\/a>named the Pillar of Shame, commemorating the events of 1989, sparking outcry by activists and dissident artists in the city and abroad.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/24\/two-hong-kong-universities-remove-tiananmen-artworks-after-pillar-of-shame-dismantled\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CUHK\u2019s Goddess of Democracy and a sculpture at Lingnan University were removed overnight as authorities move to erase memorials to the massacreTwo more Hong Kong universities have removed sculptures marking Beijing\u2019s deadly 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/40056","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40071,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056\/revisions\/40071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}