{"id":49536,"date":"2022-10-22T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/22\/where-are-the-women-at-the-top-of-chinese-politics"},"modified":"2022-10-23T17:35:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T08:35:56","slug":"where-are-the-women-at-the-top-of-chinese-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49536","title":{"rendered":"Women pushed even further from power in Xi Jinping\u2019s China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xi has revealed an all male politburo for the first time since 1997. The move erases one of the few steps women had made towards real power in Communist China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/14\/chinas-communist-party-congress-everything-you-need-to-know\">Communisty party congress: everything you need to know<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Across seven decades of turmoil and change, one thing about China\u2019s leadership has remained unchanged. It is all-male.<\/p>\n<p>Men led China into the famine of the Great Leap Forward, through the convulsions of the Cultural Revolution and during the economic opening of the 1980s and 90s. In Xi Jinping\u2019s \u201cnew era\u201d of digital authoritarianism, men remain in charge of the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/22\/where-are-the-women-at-the-top-of-chinese-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xi has revealed an all male politburo for the first time since 1997. The move erases one of the few steps women had made towards real power in Communist ChinaCommunisty party congress: everything you need to knowAcross seven decades of turmoil and chan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3380,"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-49536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49536","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\/3380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49567,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49536\/revisions\/49567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}