{"id":55038,"date":"2023-05-12T10:21:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T01:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/12\/hong-kong-political-cartoonist-axed-after-40-years-following-criticism-from-officials"},"modified":"2023-05-12T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T01:21:18","slug":"hong-kong-political-cartoonist-axed-after-40-years-following-criticism-from-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55038","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong political cartoonist axed after 40 years following criticism from officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wong Kei-kwan, known as Zunzi, says it was a \u2018mutual decision\u2019 after the Ming Pao newspaper ended his column<\/p>\n<p>A decades-old political cartoon column has been scrapped by a respected Hong Kong newspaper after it faced a barrage of criticism from officials, in a move widely seen as a further blow to the city\u2019s freedoms since the implementation of the controversial national security law.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Ming Pao newspaper announced it would stop publishing cartoons by Wong Kei-kwan, better known under his nom de plume \u201cZunzi\u201d, from Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/12\/hong-kong-political-cartoonist-axed-after-40-years-following-criticism-from-officials\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wong Kei-kwan, known as Zunzi, says it was a \u2018mutual decision\u2019 after the Ming Pao newspaper ended his columnA decades-old political cartoon column has been scrapped by a respected Hong Kong newspaper after it faced a barrage of criticism from officials&#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":[41,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55038","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=55038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55039,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55038\/revisions\/55039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}