{"id":2773,"date":"2021-09-10T05:39:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T03:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/chinas-cultural-crackdown-few-areas-untouched-as-xi-reshapes-society\/"},"modified":"2021-09-10T05:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T03:39:17","slug":"chinas-cultural-crackdown-few-areas-untouched-as-xi-reshapes-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/chinas-cultural-crackdown-few-areas-untouched-as-xi-reshapes-society\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s cultural crackdown: few areas untouched as Xi reshapes society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vast range of new regulations on society prompt fears of a return to tight control of pre-reform days<\/p>\n<p>On the second floor of a nondescript concrete building in north-east Beijing, the Youyou internet cafe is less than half full. Quiet and dark, the cafe\u2019s customers are all adults, sitting in brown sofas in front of screens set up for hours of comfortable online gaming.<\/p>\n<p>Minors aren\u2019t allowed in, and a poster on the glass entrance reads: \u201cThe whole society together cares about the healthy growth of underage teens.\u201d Under new regulations from the Chinese government, minors are limited to just a few hours of gaming a week, with tech platforms ordered to enforce it. The intervention is just one of a recent rush of directives from Beijing aimed at reshaping society.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/10\/chinas-cultural-crackdown-few-areas-untouched-as-xi-reshapes-society\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/54234537a1601ba8b2213170fb0d2afd9aae7389\/90_354_3297_1979\/master\/3297.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e414846420c0aa5486fe4bd2cf0742b7\" title=\"China\u2019s cultural crackdown: few areas untouched as Xi reshapes society\" \/>Vast range of new regulations on society prompt fears of a return to tight control of pre-reform days<br \/>\nOn the second floor of a nondescript concrete building in north-east Beijing, the Youyou internet cafe is less than half full. Quiet and dark, the cafe\u2019s customers are all adults, sitting in brown sofas in front of screens set up for hours of comfortable online gaming.<br \/>\nMinors aren\u2019t allowed in, and a poster on the glass entrance reads: \u201cThe whole society together cares about the healthy growth of underage teens.\u201d Under new regulations from the Chinese government, minors are limited to just a few hours of gaming a week, with tech platforms ordered to enforce it. The intervention is just one of a recent rush of directives from Beijing aimed at reshaping society. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vast range of new regulations on society prompt fears of a return to tight control of pre-reform days On the second floor of a nondescript concrete building in north-east Beijing, the Youyou internet cafe is less than half full. Quiet and dark, the cafe\u2019s customers are all adults, sitting in brown sofas in front of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/chinas-cultural-crackdown-few-areas-untouched-as-xi-reshapes-society\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China\u2019s cultural crackdown: few areas untouched as Xi reshapes society<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}