{"id":52451,"date":"2023-02-08T09:33:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/we-just-want-to-live-in-a-normal-world-chinas-young-protesters-speak-out-and-disappear"},"modified":"2023-02-08T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:33:46","slug":"we-just-want-to-live-in-a-normal-world-chinas-young-protesters-speak-out-and-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52451","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We just want to live in a normal world\u2019: China\u2019s young protesters speak out, and disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Blank Paper movement\u2019 decrying government policies rekindles dissent after Xi Jinping\u2019s decade of iron-fisted crackdowns<\/p>\n<p>Cao Zhixin was an ordinary young woman with no political ambition, but a fateful decision to take to the streets one night last year has inadvertently turned her into the face of resistance in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was just a girl who was keen on books, she didn\u2019t have great ambitions,\u201d says a close friend who spoke to the Guardian but requested anonymity for fear of reprisals. \u201cShe said all she wanted was a husband, kids and a warm bed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/we-just-want-to-live-in-a-normal-world-chinas-young-protesters-speak-out-and-disappear\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Blank Paper movement\u2019 decrying government policies rekindles dissent after Xi Jinping\u2019s decade of iron-fisted crackdownsCao Zhixin was an ordinary young woman with no political ambition, but a fateful decision to take to the streets one night last yea&#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":[41,50,1066,80,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-protest","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52451","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=52451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52452,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52451\/revisions\/52452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}