{"id":116,"date":"2017-05-22T08:47:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T08:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2017-07-20T08:17:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T08:17:04","slug":"the-chinese-french-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/22\/the-chinese-french-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s up with the French Obsession?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French institutions in Beijing are working well. Or so one is left to think, when you learn how Chinese people appreciate everything that is <em>French<\/em>. French people are perceived to be very elegant, refined, well-mannered, well dressed, experts of fine cuisine, have great expertise in wine, and most of all fashion&#8230; You can see it everywhere: in window-dressing choices, shopping malls, shop names, t-shirt signs, restaurants&#8230; How did the\u00a0<em>French<\/em> do it??<\/p>\n<p>Here are some boutiques close from our hotel, see for yourselves:<\/p>\n<p>#1 Jewellery shop window-dressing<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-170\" src=\"http:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4126-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4126-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4126-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4126-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4126-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#2 Clothes boutique name<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-171\" src=\"http:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4125-e1498161660550-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4125-e1498161660550-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4125-e1498161660550-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling, there is more to come to this post once we move there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French institutions in Beijing are working well. Or so one is left to think, when you learn how Chinese people appreciate everything that is French. French people are perceived to be very elegant, refined, well-mannered, well dressed, experts of fine cuisine, have great expertise in wine, and most of all fashion&#8230; You can see&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/22\/the-chinese-french-obsession\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s up with the French Obsession?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myexpatdiaries.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}