{"id":5202,"date":"2005-01-02T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T23:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:07:42","slug":"chinas-use-of-japanese-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2005\/01\/chinas-use-of-japanese-history\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s use of Japanese history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young Chinese aren&#8217;t well educated in history, and there&#8217;s little evidence of much interest. They know what the state wants them to know (&#8220;post-Communist&#8221; China still retains tight educational and publishing controls and retains a strongly Marxist-Nationalist narrative of history), and apparently the state mostly wants them to know and care about <a href=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,1380715,00.html>Japan&#8217;s WWII atrocities<\/a>. In fact, it&#8217;s a major topic on the Chinese internet, with thousands of Chinese participating in detailed and fervent discussions of wrongs done to their grandparents\/great-grandparents&#8217; generation. [via <a href=http:\/\/chlgeorge.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/historically-based-hatred.html>Claire George<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Strategic? Most likely. Illegitimate? Well, yes, in the context of China&#8217;s overall historical revisionism; no, in the context of Japan&#8217;s leadership&#8217;s failure (and much of general society) to come to terms with that history in a meaningful fashion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Chinese aren&#8217;t well educated in history, and there&#8217;s little evidence of much interest. They know what the state wants them to know (&#8220;post-Communist&#8221; China still retains tight educational and publishing controls and retains a strongly Marxist-Nationalist narrative of history), and apparently the state mostly wants them to know and care about Japan&#8217;s WWII atrocities&#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":[102,119,180,63,84,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china-japan","category-english","category-international-affairs","category-japan","category-war","category-206"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1lU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202","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=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5686,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/5686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}