{"id":49968,"date":"2022-11-04T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T05:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/04\/xi-jinpings-pilgrimage-to-red-mecca-brings-back-the-mao-factor"},"modified":"2022-11-04T14:58:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T05:58:19","slug":"xi-jinpings-pilgrimage-to-red-mecca-brings-back-the-mao-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49968","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping\u2019s pilgrimage to \u2018red Mecca\u2019 brings back the Mao factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yan\u2019an is where Mao Zedong definitively \u2013 and brutally \u2013 stamped his supreme authority on China\u2019s Communist party. Experts explain how Xi continues to shape himself as today\u2019s embodiment of the \u2018great leader\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping\u2019s next decade in power will see China increasingly revert to Mao Zedong\u2019s ideology and Communist orthodoxy, a trend confirmed by his pilgrimage to a remote city known as the cradle of the Communist party\u2019s revolution, analysts say.<\/p>\n<p>Days after the president secured an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/23\/xi-jinping-to-rule-china-for-precedent-breaking-third-term\">unprecedented third term<\/a> as the chief of the Chinese Communist party, he took his newly appointed politburo standing committee \u2013 China\u2019s top decision-making body, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/25\/xi-jinping-party-purge-china-taiwan-invasion-risk\">now filled with his allies<\/a> \u2013 to Yan\u2019an in the north-western province of Shaanxi, where the Chinese Communist party retreated and rebuilt its strength amid civil wars from 1935 to 1948.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/04\/xi-jinpings-pilgrimage-to-red-mecca-brings-back-the-mao-factor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yan\u2019an is where Mao Zedong definitively \u2013 and brutally \u2013 stamped his supreme authority on China\u2019s Communist party. Experts explain how Xi continues to shape himself as today\u2019s embodiment of the \u2018great leader\u2019Xi Jinping\u2019s next decade in power will see C&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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":[41,50,662,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-communism","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49968","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49969,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49968\/revisions\/49969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}