{"id":113,"date":"2006-09-09T13:51:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T12:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=113"},"modified":"2006-09-09T13:51:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T12:51:46","slug":"30-years-after-mao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"30 years after Mao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><CENTER><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/china24.jpg\"WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=300 BORDER=3> <BR><font size=\"-2\">Huge picture of Mao Zedong<br \/>at the entrance to the Forbidden City<\/font><br \/>\n<\/CENTER>Today marks the 30th anniversary of he death of the Chinese leader <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mao\">Mao Zedong<\/a>. I have seen his embalmed body in Tiananmen Square during one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/China.html\">my two visits to China<\/a> and I have read the highly critical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/biographies.html#Mao\">biography by Jung Chang<\/a>.<br \/>\nMao&#8217;s place in Chinese history [see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history.html#ChineseHistory\">this book review<\/a>] is assured but fiercely controversial. What is sure is that he would not recognise the China of today [see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#China\">this book review<\/a>]. It is an utterly fascinating experience and I am very keen to make a third visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge picture of Mao Zedongat the entrance to the Forbidden City Today marks the 30th anniversary of he death of the Chinese leader Mao Zedong. I have seen his embalmed body in Tiananmen Square during one of my two visits to China and I have read the highly critical biography by Jung Chang. Mao&#8217;s place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}