{"id":1226,"date":"2009-04-01T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T13:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:37:22","slug":"academics-read-the-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/04\/academics-read-the-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Academics read the newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And find <a href=\"http:\/\/thechinabeat.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/man-bites-dog-story-picky-academic.html\">good things <\/a>(On time zones in China)<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/granitestudio.org\/2009\/04\/01\/bad-history-qianlong-xinjiang-and-western-aesthetics\/\">bad things <\/a>(On Qing cultural history)<\/p>\n<p>Both of these articles are attempts by non-specialists to explain China, and one of them is very good and one pretty bad. Not much more to say really, other than that I think generally journalistic coverage of China&#8217;s present is better than that of its past. I&#8217;m not sure if this is a China thing or that all journalist tend to struggle with history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And find good things (On time zones in China) And bad things (On Qing cultural history) Both of these articles are attempts by non-specialists to explain China, and one of them is very good and one pretty bad. Not much more to say really, other than that I think generally journalistic coverage of China&#8217;s present&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-carnivals","category-china"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-jM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4701,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/4701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}