{"id":1493,"date":"2009-09-30T08:16:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T13:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:37:18","slug":"prc-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/09\/prc-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"PRC National Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People&#8217;s Republic on October 1st, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2008\/08\/old-friends-in-new-contexts\/\">my friend Carsey Yee<\/a> has sent another video: The Two Chinese Characters do the March of the Volunteers (twice, once with English subtitles). I was a bit surprised to learn that the song predates the PRC by over ten years, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/March_of_the_Volunteers\">that the author was arrested and the song banned for a time<\/a> (Can anyone think of another case where a national anthem was banned without a regime change taking place?), and, of course, the lyrics changed during the Cultural Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it makes sense: the history of the song really is the history of China.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"580\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lDdO9AForOA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People&#8217;s Republic on October 1st, my friend Carsey Yee has sent another video: The Two Chinese Characters do the March of the Volunteers (twice, once with English subtitles). I was a bit surprised to learn that the song predates the PRC by over ten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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":[93,165,105,112,119,122,131,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anniversaries","category-china","category-chinese","category-current-events","category-english","category-events","category-humor","category-nationalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-o5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}