{"id":128,"date":"2006-05-23T10:42:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T15:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2006\/05\/chairman-mao-is-like-jesus-to-us\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:41:10","slug":"chairman-mao-is-like-jesus-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2006\/05\/chairman-mao-is-like-jesus-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Chairman Mao is like Jesus to us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not really related to anything, but I found it interesting. Chinese students in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/stuff\/manawatustandard\/0,2106,3672088a6003,00.html\">New Zealand<\/a> have been protesting this image of Chairman Mao from a student newspaper<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" title=\"Mao\" alt=\"Mao\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/inl\/common\/imageViewer\/0,1445,236548,00.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I suspect that the protests have as much to do with recent anti-Chinese incidents mentioned in the story, as well as other things published recently in the paper as with the image. I was a bit surprised to see Mao being the thing that touched so many students off. Not real surprised, of course, since Mao&#8217;s reputation in China has always been quite different than that in the West. One student said that. &#8220;Chairman Mao is like Jesus to us&#8221; Mao of course is not the first Chinese revolutionary leader to be compared to Jesus. Sun Yat-sen compared himself to Jesus on his deathbed. For lots of non-Chinese Mao is the Chinese Jesus, i.e. an iconic figure who stands for &#8220;China&#8221; even for those who know nothing else about the place. Apparently at least in this context some Chinese students agree.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2006_05_21-2006_05_27.shtml#1148330545\">Volokh <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not really related to anything, but I found it interesting. Chinese students in New Zealand have been protesting this image of Chairman Mao from a student newspaper I suspect that the protests have as much to do with recent anti-Chinese incidents mentioned in the story, as well as other things published recently in the paper&#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":[165,126,132,141,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-general","category-identity","category-maoist-era-1949-1976","category-visual-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-24","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/5053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}