{"id":276813,"date":"2019-05-22T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=6da37183fa274942088b217b34fd2bb7"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:47:04","slug":"ethiopias-national-museum-said-chinese-visitor-numbers-were-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276813","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia\u2019s National Museum said Chinese visitor numbers were rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 News Ghana relayed that Chinese visitors to Ethiopia\u2019s National Museum were increasing, and that staff were exploring Chinese-language labels and guides.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-601742\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia\u2019s National Museum said Chinese visitor numbers were rising\" \/>\n<p>The note reflected a wider tourism and diplomacy pattern: more Chinese contractors, traders, and tourists in Addis Ababa, and cultural institutions trying to serve that audience without rewriting Ethiopian history for foreign taste.<\/p>\n<p>Museum language choices look small, but they show who is expected to walk the halls and how soft power travels beside rail and industrial parks.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as culture and tourism archive, the visitor-language file is a dated marker of China\u2013Ethiopia contact beyond loan announcements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsghana.com.gh\/chinese-visitors-to-ethiopias-national-museum-on-rise\/\">News Ghana<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese visitors to Ethiopia\u2019s National Museum on rise&nbsp;&nbsp;News GhanaChinese visitors to the National Museum of Ethiopia is increasing, and the Museum is exploring ways of availing written information in Chinese language at the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a0J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754857,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276813\/revisions\/754857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}