{"id":47749,"date":"2022-08-23T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T04:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/23\/china-punishes-27-people-over-tragically-ugly-illustrations-in-maths-textbook"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T04:55:07","slug":"china-punishes-27-people-over-tragically-ugly-illustrations-in-maths-textbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47749","title":{"rendered":"China punishes 27 people over \u2018tragically ugly\u2019 illustrations in maths textbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation finds the books did not \u2018properly reflect the sunny image of China\u2019s children\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities have punished 27 people over the publication of a maths textbook that went viral over its \u201ctragically ugly\u201d illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>A months-long investigation by a ministry of education working group found the books were \u201cnot beautiful\u201d, and some illustrations were \u201cquite ugly\u201d and did not \u201cproperly reflect the sunny image of China\u2019s children\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/23\/china-punishes-27-people-over-tragically-ugly-illustrations-in-maths-textbook\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation finds the books did not \u2018properly reflect the sunny image of China\u2019s children\u2019Chinese authorities have punished 27 people over the publication of a maths textbook that went viral over its \u201ctragically ugly\u201d illustrations.A months-long inve&#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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/47749","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=47749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47750,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47749\/revisions\/47750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}