{"id":659142,"date":"2026-08-28T11:20:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=659142"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:20:02","slug":"how-chinas-attempt-to-ban-a-book-backfired-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=659142","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s Attempt To Ban A Book Backfired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Book-Cover-Featured-Image-6.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Only Let Red Flowers Bloom\" \/>Emily Feng\u2019s &#8216;Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping\u2019s China,&#8217; has become an important book for understanding China&#8217;s authoritarian abuses.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Book-Cover-Featured-Image-6.png\" title=\"How China\u2019s Attempt To Ban A Book Backfired\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Feng\u2019s &#8216;Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping\u2019s China,&#8217; has become an important book for understanding China&#8217;s authoritarian abuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/659133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}