{"id":45006,"date":"2022-05-30T18:20:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T09:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/30\/tragically-ugly-school-textbook-social-media-outcry-china"},"modified":"2022-05-30T18:20:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T09:20:38","slug":"tragically-ugly-school-textbook-causes-social-media-outcry-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45006","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tragically ugly\u2019 school textbook causes social media outcry in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education ministry orders publisher to rectify illustrations of children deemed inappropriate<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s education ministry has ordered a state-owned publisher to rectify a school textbook that went viral owing to what social media users described as \u201ctragically ugly\u201d and inappropriate depictions of children.<\/p>\n<p>The mathematics books published by the People\u2019s Education Press contain illustrations of people with distorted faces and bulging pants. Boys are seen grabbing girls\u2019 skirts and one child appears to have a leg tattoo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/30\/tragically-ugly-school-textbook-social-media-outcry-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education ministry orders publisher to rectify illustrations of children deemed inappropriateChina\u2019s education ministry has ordered a state-owned publisher to rectify a school textbook that went viral owing to what social media users described as \u201ctrag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,511,50,71,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-china","category-culture","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\/45006","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45007,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45006\/revisions\/45007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}