{"id":45124,"date":"2022-06-03T14:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T05:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/apocalypse-mentality-revenge-spending-and-an-exodus-in-newly-free-shanghai"},"modified":"2022-06-03T14:33:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T05:33:17","slug":"apocalypse-mentality-revenge-spending-and-an-exodus-in-newly-free-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45124","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Apocalypse mentality\u2019, \u2018revenge spending\u2019 and an exodus in newly free Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City revels in freedoms after two months of lockdown but happiness is punctuated by fears that restrictions could return<\/p>\n<p>For 26-year-old Daphne, the last two months felt like \u201ca fever dream\u201d. The Taiwanese marketing specialist has lived in Shanghai for years, but had never experienced anything like this. Alongside an estimated 25 million neighbours, she has spent the past 76 days almost entirely inside her apartment in the name of China\u2019s zero-Covid policy.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/01\/shanghais-subway-and-shops-reopen-and-streets-fill-up-after-two-month-lockdown\">most of them were finally free<\/a>. \u201cJust like the lockdown in the beginning, the unlocking also came suddenly,\u201d she says. \u201cEveryone has a feeling of ecstasy and disbelief, and many communities were setting off firecrackers and fireworks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/apocalypse-mentality-revenge-spending-and-an-exodus-in-newly-free-shanghai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City revels in freedoms after two months of lockdown but happiness is punctuated by fears that restrictions could returnFor 26-year-old Daphne, the last two months felt like \u201ca fever dream\u201d. The Taiwanese marketing specialist has lived in Shanghai for &#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":[41,50,1066,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/45124","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=45124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45125,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45124\/revisions\/45125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}