{"id":757,"date":"2010-11-04T20:18:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T00:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=757"},"modified":"2011-10-27T23:27:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T03:27:59","slug":"return-of-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Return of the King?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Cathy Barbash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend in Xi&#8217;an, my local cultural official friend, discreetly told us that artists in Shaanxi  Province are quietly telling each other that &#8220;spring is coming.&#8221; Why their optimism? Shaanxi native Xi Jingping will become the next president of China. &#8220;The Tang Emperor is returning,&#8221; they say.<\/p>\n<p>They will need all the help they can get&#8211;the local revival\/repatriation of Ping Chong&#8217;s <em>Cathay: Three Tales of China<\/em>, was, albeit a huge artistic success, fraught with nightmarish production problems. This was a sobering reminder of how the interior still lags behind the coast, and how government affiliated culture companies lag behind private entrepreneurial companies in the same city.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:34px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=757\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Cathy Barbash Last weekend in Xi&#8217;an, my local cultural official friend, discreetly told us that artists in Shaanxi Province are quietly telling each other that &#8220;spring is coming.&#8221; Why their optimism? Shaanxi native Xi Jingping will become the next president of China. &#8220;The Tang Emperor is returning,&#8221; they say. They will need all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,117,119],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}