{"id":59577,"date":"2023-11-01T22:18:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/01\/halloween-costumes-in-shanghai-poke-fun-at-chinese-authorities"},"modified":"2023-11-01T22:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:18:06","slug":"halloween-costumes-in-shanghai-poke-fun-at-chinese-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59577","title":{"rendered":"Halloween costumes in Shanghai poke fun at Chinese authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People dress as Covid workers, surveillance cameras and Winnie-the-Pooh, a reference to Xi Jinping<\/p>\n<p>Halloween revellers in Shanghai have poked fun at the Chinese authorities with their costumes, dressing up as Covid prevention workers, surveillance cameras and China\u2019s falling stock market.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media showed police shepherding away people with particularly subversive costumes on Tuesday night, including one dressed as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whyyoutouzhele\/status\/1719391373948846309\">Lu Xun<\/a>, a Chinese writer from the early 20th century whose fable about a useless scholar has become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/01\/china-graduates-jobs-market-youth-unemployment\">a meme<\/a> for China\u2019s unemployed youth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/01\/halloween-costumes-in-shanghai-poke-fun-at-chinese-authorities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People dress as Covid workers, surveillance cameras and Winnie-the-Pooh, a reference to Xi JinpingHalloween revellers in Shanghai have poked fun at the Chinese authorities with their costumes, dressing up as Covid prevention workers, surveillance camer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,1066,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59577","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59578,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59577\/revisions\/59578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}