{"id":211,"date":"2004-07-22T12:56:52","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T16:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/07\/22\/xinhua\/"},"modified":"2004-07-22T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2004-07-22T16:56:52","slug":"xinhua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2004\/07\/22\/xinhua\/","title":{"rendered":"Xinhua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a459'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I read about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2004-07\/22\/content_1630467.htm\">featherless bipeds<\/a> and such on a Chinese news site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/index.htm\">xinhuanet<\/a>, or China View, or Xinhua Online.<\/p>\n<p>I tried pronouncing &#8220;Xinhua&#8221; with my best Chinese accent and it sounded like a Frenchman saying &#8220;Chinois&#8221;.  Is this a coincidence, or an etymology?  Does anyone know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I read about featherless bipeds and such on a Chinese news site called xinhuanet, or China View, or Xinhua Online. I tried pronouncing &#8220;Xinhua&#8221; with my best Chinese accent and it sounded like a Frenchman saying &#8220;Chinois&#8221;. Is this a coincidence, or an etymology? Does anyone know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}