{"id":50752,"date":"2022-11-30T22:34:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/30\/from-blank-paper-to-alpacas-how-protesters-in-china-are-voicing-their-anger-video"},"modified":"2022-11-30T22:34:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:34:52","slug":"from-blank-paper-to-alpacas-how-protesters-in-china-are-voicing-their-anger-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50752","title":{"rendered":"From blank paper to alpacas: how protesters in China are voicing their anger \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest protests in a generation erupted in cities across China over the weekend against the government\u2019s zero-Covid policy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The most widely used symbol in the demonstrations has been a blank sheet of paper. It symbolises censorship, and may also, some Twitter users pointed out, be read as a reference to the deaths last week of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/26\/covid-lockdown-protests-break-out-in-western-china-after-deadly-fire\">10 people in a building fire in Urumqi<\/a>, Xinjiang, which was blamed on lockdown restrictions that protesters believe prevented the residents from escaping in time. In China, white is a colour used at funerals. But protesters have found other creative ways to express their anger, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/helen-sullivan\">Helen Sullivan<\/a>&nbsp;explains<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/nov\/30\/from-blank-paper-to-alpacas-how-protesters-in-china-are-voicing-their-anger-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest protests in a generation erupted in cities across China over the weekend against the government\u2019s zero-Covid policy.&nbsp;The most widely used symbol in the demonstrations has been a blank sheet of paper. It symbolises censorship, and may a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3467,"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":[41,458,50,1066,80,235,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-protest","category-social-media","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\/50752","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\/3467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50776,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50752\/revisions\/50776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}