{"id":50788,"date":"2022-12-02T03:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/01\/former-chinese-leader-jiang-zemin-body-arrives-beijing"},"modified":"2022-12-02T03:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T18:02:50","slug":"former-chinese-leader-jiang-zemins-body-arrives-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50788","title":{"rendered":"Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin\u2019s body arrives in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coffin was earlier driven through Shanghai in choreographed scene contrasting with recent protests<\/p>\n<p>The body of the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin has arrived in Beijing after being driven through the streets of Shanghai in a highly choreographed scene contrasting sharply with protests this week calling for the removal of the Communist party.<\/p>\n<p>China Central Television in its main evening news broadcast on Thursday showed footage of a hearse carrying Jiang\u2019s body through Shanghai, while people dressed in black \u2013 likely to be government employees \u2013 lined the streets and bowed their heads in silence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/01\/former-chinese-leader-jiang-zemin-body-arrives-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffin was earlier driven through Shanghai in choreographed scene contrasting with recent protestsThe body of the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin has arrived in Beijing after being driven through the streets of Shanghai in a highly choreographed scen&#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":[41,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50788","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\/50788","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=50788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50794,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50788\/revisions\/50794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}