{"id":58310,"date":"2023-09-12T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/12\/chinese-state-media-censors-itself-poem-corruption-hangzhou"},"modified":"2023-09-12T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T05:14:13","slug":"chinese-state-media-censors-itself-after-highlighting-poem-about-corrupt-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58310","title":{"rendered":"Chinese state media censors itself after highlighting poem about corrupt leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video produced by the People\u2019s Daily that included literary work on lazy and drunk officials was quickly taken down <\/p>\n<p>Chinese state media appears to have censored one of its own videos after viewers notice it featured a classic Chinese poem about corrupt and indulgent leaders ignoring national crises.<\/p>\n<p>The video, produced by official state media outlet, the People\u2019s Daily, aimed to promote the city of Hangzhou, which is hosting the Asian Games this month, by showcasing literary links to the city. However one featured poem by Lin Sheng raised some eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/12\/chinese-state-media-censors-itself-poem-corruption-hangzhou\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video produced by the People\u2019s Daily that included literary work on lazy and drunk officials was quickly taken down Chinese state media appears to have censored one of its own videos after viewers notice it featured a classic Chinese poem about corrupt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[458,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","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\/58310","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58311,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58310\/revisions\/58311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}