{"id":156119,"date":"2026-08-15T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156119"},"modified":"2026-08-15T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T10:26:35","slug":"why-chinese-youth-are-turning-to-an-84-year-old-cambridge-professor-for-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156119","title":{"rendered":"Why Chinese youth are turning to an 84-year-old Cambridge professor for support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWearing a black mariner\u2019s cap and with a wall-to-wall bookshelf as a backdrop, Cambridge University professor Alan Macfarlane greets his social media audience with a soft ni hao \u2013 \u201cHello\u201d in Chinese.<br \/>\nIn his latest video, Macfarlane follows this signature opening by thoughtfully answering a question pulled from the comments: why has making genuine friends become so difficult?<br \/>\nFew would have expected an 84-year-old British anthropologist and historian from Cambridge University to become a social&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3364001\/why-chinese-youth-are-turning-84-year-old-cambridge-professor-support?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWearing a black mariner\u2019s cap and with a wall-to-wall bookshelf as a backdrop, Cambridge University professor Alan Macfarlane greets his social media audience with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}