{"id":75324,"date":"2025-11-26T02:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/25\/protests-erupt-in-chinas-guizhou-province-over-cremation-mandate"},"modified":"2025-11-26T02:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:41:30","slug":"protests-erupt-in-chinas-guizhou-province-over-cremation-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75324","title":{"rendered":"Protests erupt in China\u2019s Guizhou province over cremation mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Villagers demonstrate against drive for alternative funeral practices instead of burial to preserve land resources<\/p>\n<p>Protests have erupted in China\u2019s southern Guizhou province, the latest in a string of rural demonstrations that have seen incidents of unrest increase by 70% compared with last year.<\/p>\n<p>The protests in Shidong town started over the weekend in response to a directive from local authorities that people should be cremated rather than buried after their death.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/25\/protests-erupt-in-chinas-guizhou-province-over-cremation-mandate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Villagers demonstrate against drive for alternative funeral practices instead of burial to preserve land resourcesProtests have erupted in China\u2019s southern Guizhou province, the latest in a string of rural demonstrations that have seen incidents of unr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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":[41,50,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-protest","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75324","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75325,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75324\/revisions\/75325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}