{"id":6843,"date":"2016-01-09T07:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T07:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2016-01-09T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T08:08:21","slug":"rustic-riposte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6843","title":{"rendered":"Rustic riposte"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only a couple of days after hearing of the creation of a giant statue of Mao Zedong (posts passim<\/em><\/a>), reports have been received<\/a> that the statue of the so-called Great Helmsman in Henan province has been destroyed.<\/p>\n

Pictures such as the one below have been posted on Chinese social media.<\/p>\n

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The statue’s hands, legs and feet appear to have been hacked off and a black cloth draped over its head.<\/p>\n

According to an unnamed local delivery driver, it was destroyed because it had occupied a farmer\u2019s land.<\/p>\n

This destruction brings to mind the traditional farmer’s challenge to trespassers: “Get off my land!” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Another reason for the destruction could be that Henan province was one of the regions worst hit by China’s great famine, a catastrophe that claimed tens of millions of lives that was caused by Mao’s disastrous “Great Leap Forward<\/a>” \u2013 a bid for rapid industrialisation.<\/p>\n

The official Chinese line is that the statue had not gone through the correct approval process before construction, according to The People’s Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only a couple of days after hearing of the creation of a giant statue of Mao Zedong (posts passim), reports have been received that the statue of the so-called Great Helmsman in Henan province has been destroyed. Pictures such as the one below have been posted on Chinese social media. The statue’s hands, legs and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,34],"tags":[36,16,22,35],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6850,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions\/6850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}