{"id":9091,"date":"2021-01-16T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts-culture\/article\/3117877\/chinese-culture-food-can-bring-people-together-and-it-can"},"modified":"2021-01-16T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T03:00:11","slug":"in-chinese-culture-food-can-bring-people-together-and-it-can-drive-them-apart-as-uncle-roger-controversy-reminds-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/in-chinese-culture-food-can-bring-people-together-and-it-can-drive-them-apart-as-uncle-roger-controversy-reminds-us\/","title":{"rendered":"In Chinese culture, food can bring people together \u2013 and it can drive them apart, as Uncle Roger controversy reminds us"},"content":{"rendered":"Food plays a pivotal role in Chinese culture because of its ability to serve as a conduit for developing relationships, cementing business partnerships and bringing families together.A meal is not merely a culinary event in our world. The occasion provides a platform for meaningful interaction, while the food serves as something of a sweetener to soothe the stomach \u2013 and sometimes difficult interactions with other dinner guests.The Chinese believe if you want to get things done, it\u2019s best to\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts-culture\/article\/3117877\/chinese-culture-food-can-bring-people-together-and-it-can\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food plays a pivotal role in Chinese culture because of its ability to serve as a conduit for developing relationships, cementing business partnerships and bringing families together.A meal is not merely a culinary event in our world. The occasion prov&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":914,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9092,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions\/9092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}