{"id":1361,"date":"2012-01-12T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2012-01-12T16:48:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T16:48:22","slug":"english-enclave-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/english-enclave-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"English enclave in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wanted to visit China but fear the language barrier? You\u2019re in luck!<\/p>\n<p>In one of the oddest pieces of news I\u2019ve seen in a while, it\u2019s reported in China\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/english.peopledaily.com.cn\/90882\/7678719.html \">People&#8217;s Daily<\/a> that a Beijing suburb is to build a European style town where no one will be allowed to speak Chinese. To be built within 5 years, the town will have an English castle and create \u201cthe illusion of being abroad\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The local mayor, Wang Haichen, said one courtyard has been turned into a boutique hotel, and promised to transform Miyun County into an international tourism and leisure attraction.<\/p>\n<p>We shall have to wait and see how successful this is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wanted to visit China but fear the language barrier? You\u2019re in luck! In one of the oddest pieces of news I\u2019ve seen in a while, it\u2019s reported in China\u2019s People&#8217;s Daily that a Beijing suburb is to build a European style town where no one will be allowed to speak Chinese. To be built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,100,3],"tags":[253,3,1091,51,123],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-culture","category-english","tag-chinese","tag-english","tag-english-enclave","tag-language","tag-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}