{"id":459,"date":"2006-07-14T12:45:40","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T04:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/oracle-bones-site-makes-world-heritage-list\/"},"modified":"2006-07-14T12:45:40","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T04:45:40","slug":"oracle-bones-site-makes-world-heritage-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/oracle-bones-site-makes-world-heritage-list\/","title":{"rendered":"oracle bones site makes World Heritage list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PRC has been trying for several years to get Yin Xu (the Ruins of Yin) in Xiaotun, site of important finds of oracle bones, included on the United Nation&#8217;s list of World Heritage Sites. Oracle bones are pieces of turtle shell or animal bone on which were inscribed early forms of what eventually came to be Chinese characters. <\/p>\n<p>This year <a href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/1114\">Yin Xu was finally voted in<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s new additions also include giant-panda sanctuaries and the Tequila-producing area of Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>sources: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/L13844341.htm\">U.N. adds 18 sites to heritage list, but not Everest<\/a>, Reuters, July 13, 2006<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.people.com.cn\/200607\/12\/eng20060712_282158.html\">Home of China&#8217;s earliest writing shoots for world heritage listing<\/a>, Xinhua, July 12, 2006<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/archive\/advisory_body_evaluation\/1114.pdf\">Advisory Body Evaluation<\/a> (PDF in English and French)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PRC has been trying for several years to get Yin Xu (the Ruins of Yin) in Xiaotun, site of important finds of oracle bones, included on the United Nation&#8217;s list of World Heritage Sites. Oracle bones are pieces of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/oracle-bones-site-makes-world-heritage-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-writing-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}