{"id":66535,"date":"2024-09-03T08:43:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T23:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/03\/hong-kong-schools-begin-teaching-xi-jinping-thought"},"modified":"2024-09-03T08:43:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T23:43:36","slug":"a-patriotic-education-hong-kong-schools-begin-rollout-of-xi-jinping-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66535","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018patriotic education\u2019: Hong Kong schools begin rollout of Xi Jinping Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New modules on the Chinese leader\u2019s ideas are aimed at cultivating \u2018affection for our country\u2019 and a \u2018sense of national identity\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The new school year began this week in Hong Kong with a significant new addition to the curriculum for some students: the teachings of Xi Jinping Thought.<\/p>\n<p>The changes come alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/05\/lets-learn-about-national-security-hong-kong-releases-video-for-young-children\">more lessons about national security<\/a> and pro-Beijing patriotism, as the influence and control of China\u2019s ruling Communist party increases in the semi-autonomous city.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/03\/hong-kong-schools-begin-teaching-xi-jinping-thought\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New modules on the Chinese leader\u2019s ideas are aimed at cultivating \u2018affection for our country\u2019 and a \u2018sense of national identity\u2019The new school year began this week in Hong Kong with a significant new addition to the curriculum for some students: the t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[50,48,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/66535","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66536,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66535\/revisions\/66536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}