{"id":2921,"date":"2008-08-26T08:53:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2008-08-26T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T15:58:35","slug":"cut-up-like-a-melon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/08\/26\/08\/53\/cut-up-like-a-melon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut Up Like A Melon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/21715\">Since 1949, a significant part of China&#8217;s effort to create a new national identity has been based on the dream of restoring the country&#8217;s territorial integrity, which patriots viewed as having been fengua, or, &#8220;cut up like a melon,&#8221; by past foreign incursion. This dream was of reunifying China as a multiethnic state composed of Han (central Chinese), Man (Manchurians), Meng (Mongolians), Hui (Muslims), and Zang (Tibetans), as well as bringing back into the fold of &#8220;the sacred motherland&#8221; those parts of the old Chinese empire that had either been pried loose by imperialist powers or had broken away during times of weakness &#8230; In 2001, the National People&#8217;s Congress even passed a law proclaiming an official &#8220;National Humiliation Day.&#8221; (However, so many historical dates were proposed that delegates could not agree on any one, and thus, no day was designated).<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1949, a significant part of China&#8217;s effort to create a new national identity has been based on the dream of restoring the country&#8217;s territorial integrity, which patriots viewed as having been fengua, or,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[788,792,22,791,790,21,789],"tags":[1617,1621,1371,1620,1619,1370,1618],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-788","category-792","category-china","category-791","category-fengua","category-tibet","category-zhongguo","tag-1617","tag-1621","tag-china","tag-1620","tag-fengua","tag-tibet","tag-zhongguo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}