{"id":644,"date":"2008-09-14T06:39:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T11:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=644"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:38:17","slug":"collecting-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2008\/09\/collecting-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In Imperial China, emperors and other high officials sometimes disguised themselves as commoners and mingled with the ordinary folk to learn what they were really thinking. For essentially the same purpose, a government office in the People&#8217;s Republic now collects shunkouliu, or &#8220;slippery jingles.&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;Uncensored and uncensorable, they are the freest and arguably the liveliest medium in China, even though the government has classified the poems in its own collection as state secrets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perry Link has a very brief piece in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/25\/AR2008072502254.html?sub=AR\">Washington Post<\/a> on collecting songs in China.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/09\/rhymes-against-the-state\/\">CDT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Imperial China, emperors and other high officials sometimes disguised themselves as commoners and mingled with the ordinary folk to learn what they were really thinking. For essentially the same purpose, a government office in the People&#8217;s Republic now collects shunkouliu, or &#8220;slippery jingles.&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;Uncensored and uncensorable, they are the freest and arguably the liveliest medium&#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":[165,112,139,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-current-events","category-literature","category-post-mao"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-ao","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","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=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4776,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/4776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}