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• Chen Guangcheng: GQ Rebel of the Year
• Photo: Prostrating pilgrims, Tongren, 2009, by Catie & Linds
• Li Keqiang Calls for Equal Treatment for AIDS Patients
• Sensitive Words: Baidu CEO Divorced?
• Podcast: 99% Invisible on Kowloon Walled City
• Sensitive Words: “Pen-Grabbing Secretary”
• 80th Tibetan Self-Immolation Reported
• Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (16)

Chen Guangcheng: GQ Rebel of the Year Posted: 23 Nov 2012 10:11 PM PST Chen Guangcheng finds himself a long way from Dongshigu, alongside Ben Affleck, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Walken and Usain Bolt in GQ magazine's Men Of The Year feature. Beneath a heroically windswept portrait, Chen describes mixed feelings about his escape to the U.S., and his views on the political realities of continuing his work there. I had read Daniel C. Chung's article in The New York Times after my arrival in the United States, where he says that I should be careful about letting people exploit me to represent their interests. I appreciate his opinion, but I already have my own thoughts on this. If any person, organization, party—whatever—works to promote human rights and social justice, I will cooperate with them. Don't call that exploitation. Because exploitation would be for individual benefit. If in general you feel like you can't accomplish anything because someone tells you to do something, then what will you ever do? If your left hand wants to cooperate and is clasped by your right, is it being exploited? If your right hand comes to your left's aid, is it being exploited? It doesn't matter which hand is which. It matters what they are trying to accomplish. […] I know Boehner and Pelosi might not agree [about which rights I represent]. I think I protect the rights of unborn children, the rights of women, and the rights of any citizen. Human rights are not just children's rights or women's rights. Men have rights. The elderly have rights. This is a human problem, a fundamental concept. I don't think Mr. Boehner and Ms. Pelosi differ on this idea. They may promote rights from different angles, but I don't think one-hundred-percent agreement is necessary. Meanwhile Ai Weiwei, one of GQ's Men Of 2011, came in at number nine last week in Salon's Sexiest Men of 2012: Ah, the eternally irresistible voluptuary. He attacks life with such mesmerizing gusto; you can't help getting swept up in his enthusiasm – and imagining getting swept up by him. And he looks just like Ai Weiwei. [… The documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry] makes it "very clear that he pulls hot chicks by the carload." Oh, hell yeah he does. © Samuel Wade for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Chen Guangcheng, chen kegui, Dongshigu, Nancy Pelosi, United States Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Photo: Prostrating pilgrims, Tongren, 2009, by Catie & Linds Posted: 23 Nov 2012 05:42 PM PST Prostrating pilgrims, Tongren, 2009 © Sophie Beach for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Li Keqiang Calls for Equal Treatment for AIDS Patients Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:32 PM PST When a 25-year-old lung cancer patient was refused treatment at a hospital in Tianjin because he is also HIV-positive, he forged his medical records in order to get treated at another hospital. He is now suing the original hospital, which violated the law requiring hospitals to treat HIV patients for any ailment. The patient and his supporters have made his case public to raise awareness of widespread discrimination against people who are HIV-positive or have AIDS, even within the medical establishment. From Global Times: Xiao Feng was originally refused treatment at Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital in early October after they discovered his HIV-positive status, said Li. "Although he contacted the local health bureau [in Tianjin] for help, there was no response," Li said. "He then came to Beijing to ask for treatment at Ditan Hospital and was also rejected," said Li. [...] "The reason we changed his status is because we think patients have a 99 percent chance of being rejected by hospitals if they know the patients are HIV carriers," he said. In response, Vice Premier Li Keqiang, who is expected to take over as Premier early next year, called the Ministry of Health and ordered fair treatment for all HIV and AIDS patients. From China Daily: Hospitals designated to treat HIV/AIDS will be upgraded to protect the rights of patients and ensure better healthcare services, Minister of Health Chen Zhu pledged on Thursday. He was speaking at a ceremony to mark the end of the China-Australia Health and HIV/AIDS Facility, a joint project, and after Vice-Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday called for proper medical treatment for people who have HIV or AIDS. Li contacted the ministry after learning of a recent case in which a 25-year-old HIV carrier ― identified as Xiaofeng ― was denied cancer treatment in Tianjin due to his condition, and only secured treatment at another facility after hiding his status. "The Health Ministry will improve services at designated hospitals to better help people with HIV/AIDS beyond just treating them," Chen told China Daily. "We'll also improve working conditions for medical workers." Despite Li's public support for AIDS patients now, in the late 1990s, as governor of Henan, he oversaw a crackdown on journalists and activists who tried to stem a HIV epidemic that spread through government-backed blood-selling clinics. Some observers are looking to Li to bring about reforms in China, though others are skeptical of how much he can achieve within the current system. © Sophie Beach for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: AIDS, aids discrimination, blood selling, HIV, Li Keqiang, medical treatment, public health Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Sensitive Words: Baidu CEO Divorced? Posted: 23 Nov 2012 02:45 PM PST As of November 22, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the "search for user" function): Baidu CEO Robin Li and his wife Ma Dongmin. Baidu CEO Divorced? Baidu stock took a nosedive following rumors that CEO Robin Li and his wife Ma Dongmin have divorced and that Li may relinquish his post. A photo of Li and Ma on vacation in Norway has appeared on Baidu Tieba to counteract the rumors. The affected parties have not yet made any public statement. As for leadership change at Baidu, a November 19 report in Caijing on the possibility has vanished. A search for "Robin Li" on Sina Weibo still returns results. - Robin Li + divorce (李彦宏+离婚) - Robin Li + marriage crisis (李彦宏+婚变) - Robin Li + mistress (李彦宏+小三) Note: All Chinese-language words are tested using simplified characters. The same terms in traditional characters occasionally return different results. CDT Chinese runs a project that crowd-sources filtered keywords on Sina Weibo search.  CDT independently tests the keywords before posting them, but some searches later become accessible again. We welcome readers to contribute to this project so that we can include the most up-to-date information. To add words, check out the form at the bottom of CDT Chinese's latest sensitive words post. © Anne.Henochowicz for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Baidu, censorship, Internet censorship, Robin Li, sensitive words, sina weibo, weibo Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Podcast: 99% Invisible on Kowloon Walled City Posted: 23 Nov 2012 02:18 PM PST 99% Invisible—"a tiny radio show about design" and architecture—explores the legendary Kowloon Walled City. The Walled City was torn down in 1993, but has been featured in Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Supremacy, William Gibson's Bridge trilogy and the new Call of Duty: Black Ops video game, and inspired the Narrows setting in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins. By its peak in the 1990s, the 6.5 acre Kowloon Walled City was home to at least 33,000 people (with estimates of up to 50,000). That's a population density of at least 3.2 million per square mile. For New York City to get that dense, every man, woman, and child living in Texas would have to move to Manhattan. […] Kowloon Walled City began as a military fort in Kowloon, a region in mainland China. In 1898, China signed a land lease with Great Britain, giving the British control of Hong Kong, Kowloon, and other nearby territories. But the lease stipulated that the fort in Kowloon would remain under Chinese jurisdiction. Over time, the fort became abandoned, leaving the area subject to neither Chinese nor British authority. This legal gray zone was attractive to displaced and marginalized people. Thousands of people moved there after the war with Japan broke out in 1937. Even more people moved there after the Communist Revolution. It attracted gangsters, drug addicts, sex workers, and refugees. And it also drew a lot of normal people from all over China who saw opportunity there. Click through to 99percentinvisible.org for photos and video of the Walled City. Host Roman Mars also tweeted a link to a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' session with user Crypt0n1te, who claims to have lived there as a child. © Samuel Wade for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: architecture, Britain, Hong Kong, podcasts, radio Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Sensitive Words: “Pen-Grabbing Secretary” Posted: 23 Nov 2012 02:15 PM PST As of November 21, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the "search for user" function): Li Hongzhong asks, "Do you know about the discussion of livelihood at the 18th Party Congress?" "Pen-Grabbing Secretary" Rides the Bus: Earlier this week, Hubei Province Party Secretary Li Hongzhong was spotted riding the bus in Wuhan and "observing the people's condition" in the "spirit of the 18th Party Congress." Skeptical netizens think he's trying to make up for his behavior in March 2010, when as governor of the province he snatched a pen voice recorder out of a journalist's hand. - Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠): re-tested - Govenor Li (李省长): re-tested - Hongzhong + pen recorder (鸿忠+录音笔) - grab the pen recorder (抢录音笔) - pen-grabbing secretary 抢笔书记 - pen-grabbing governor 抢笔省长 - pen recorder incident 录音笔事件 Other: - eighteen big: Literal translation of the Chinese abbreviation for the 18th Party Congress (十八大) - Qiangba Puncog (向巴平措): Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Note: All Chinese-language words are tested using simplified characters. The same terms in traditional characters occasionally return different results. CDT Chinese runs a project that crowd-sources filtered keywords on Sina Weibo search.  CDT independently tests the keywords before posting them, but some searches later become accessible again. We welcome readers to contribute to this project so that we can include the most up-to-date information. To add words, check out the form at the bottom of CDT Chinese's latest sensitive words post. © Anne.Henochowicz for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: 18th party congress, censorship, Hubei, Internet censorship, Li Hongzhong, Qiangba Puncog, sensitive words, sina weibo, Tibet, weibo, wuhan Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

80th Tibetan Self-Immolation Reported Posted: 23 Nov 2012 01:10 PM PST From RFA: Former monk Tamdin Kyap, 23, burned himself to death in Luchu (in Chinese, Luqu) county in the Kanlho (Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture late Thursday, the sources said. "He set himself on fire at a site close to the Luchu river in Luchu county in protest against Chinese rule and succumed to his injuries," a source in Tibet told RFA's Tibetan service. […] A source from the region said that whenever someone self-immolated, Tamdin Kyab used to say "if he can do the same thing" and that "there is no worth living if His Holiness the Dalai Lama is not allowed to return to his homeland," according to the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the official name of the Tibetan government-in-exile based in Dharamsala, India. His death brings the self-immolation tally to 80 so far, with 16 reported this month. Five burnings were reported in one day alone — Nov 7. See more on Tibet and the self-immolations there, including discussion of the 79th case, the challenges of verifying the reports, and the last words of several of the self-immolators. © Samuel Wade for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, Gansu, monks, protests, self-immolations, Tibet Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (16) Posted: 23 Nov 2012 12:51 PM PST In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the "Beijing Internet Instructions" series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org (Participate) and date from 2005 to 2007. According to Canyu, the directives were issued by the Beijing Municipal Network Propaganda Management Office and the State Council Internet management departments and provided to to Canyu by insiders. China Copyright and Media has not verified the source. The translations are by Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media. 9 May 2006, 10:57, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao Please timely reprint the Xinhua article "Who Heads Online Harm" in the header position of the special subject section for "Initiating the Wind of Network Civilization." http://news.xinhuanet.com/focus/2006-05/08/content_4494204.htm Please acknowledge receipt, thank you. 9 May 2006, 11:05 Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao The Xinhua special subject article "Exclusive Issue: Who Heads Online Harm?" http://news.xinhuanet.com/focus/2006-05/08/content_4494204.htm, contains many articles, it suffices for all websites to make one link in the header, and netizens can directly click to the Xinhua webpage. This may reduce the workload of all websites. 9 May 2006, 11:59, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao All websites are requested to reprint the article "'Perceiving China? 'Korea Can' Activities to Be Organized in Seoul, in September" in the important news section (http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2006-05/09/content_4525184.htm). Please acknowledge receipt, thank you 9 May 2006, 12:29, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao All websites are requested to speedily delete articles and corresponding content on the Central Discipline Inspection Committee having made regulations on the time limits for shuanggui. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you. 10 May 2006, 18:15 Correction of the recent notification: all websites are requested to reprint the Beijing Municipal Commercial Internet Online Service Venue Association "Open Letter to the Internet Cafe Managers in the Entire City." http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/05/10/178@3162913.htm Please acknowledge receipt, thank you 11 May 2006, 10:50, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao All websites are requested to delete the article "Investigating the True Facts of the Murder of the Beijing Forestry Bureau Director" and corresponding links, and it is reiterated that this matter may not be played up. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you. 11 May 2006, 14:02, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao All websites are requested to reprint the Qianlong Net Information "Beijing Concentratedly Launches Special Campaign to Discipline Internet Cafes" in the header of the special subject section on "Initiating the Wind of Network Civilization" (http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/05/10/2601@3163862.htm). Please acknowledge receipt, thank you. 11 May 2006, 14:23, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao Please close trackers concerning the news on the Yangtze bridge in Nanjing. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you. 11 May 2006, 15:09, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao Please close trackers on the CCTV "News Investigation" article "Xi'an Communications University Kaiyuan Group Runs Into Financial Problems – 1,000 Teaching and Administrative Staff Assemble," push it towards the back stage tomorrow, forums are also not to discuss this matter. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you. 11 May 2006, 18:03, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Fan Tao All sorts of news concerning the demolition of the Nanjing Yangtze bridge may not be reprinted from now on, where they are reprinted, please delete them immediately. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you. 2006年5月北京网管办发出的禁令（一） 2006年5月9日10时57 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛 请在"大兴网络文明之风"专题头条位置，及时转发新华网＂网络危害谁为首＂一文． http://news.xinhuanet.com/focus/2006-05/08/content_4494204.htm 收到请回复，谢谢。 2006年5月9日11时05 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛 新华网的专题"独家发布：网络危害谁为首？"http://news.xinhuanet.com/focus/2006-05/08/content_4494204.htm 内有多篇文章，各网可在头条位置做一个链接，网民点击后直接进入新华网页面即可。这样可以减小各网的工作量。 2006年5月9日11时59 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛 请各网在要闻区内转载《"感知中国?韩国行"活动９月将在韩国首尔举行》一文（http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2006-05/09/content_4525184.htm）收到请回复，谢谢。 2006年5月9日12时29 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛 关于中纪委对"双规"时限做出规定一稿及相关内容，请各网迅速删除。收到请回复，谢谢。 2006年5月10日18时15 分 更正刚才的通知：请各网转载北京市互联网上网服务营业场所协会《致全市网吧从业者的一封公开信》 http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/05/10/178@3162913.htm 收到请回复，谢谢。 2006年5月11日10时50 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛 请各网删除——《北京林业局长被杀真相调查》一稿及相关链接，并重申不得炒作此事。收到请回复，谢谢。 2006年5月11日14时02 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛 请各网在"大兴网络文明之风"专题头条位置转载千龙网消息《北京市集中开展整治网吧专项行动》（http://beijing.qianlong.com/3825/2006/05/10/2601@3163862.htm）收到请回复，谢谢。 2006年5月11日14时23 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛 请关闭关于南京长江大桥新闻的跟贴。收到请回复，谢谢。 2006年5月11日15时09 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛 央视《新闻调查》"西安交大开元集团遭遇资金问题 千名教职工集会"一文，请关闭跟贴，明天压到后台，论坛也不讨论此事。收到请回复，谢谢。 2006年5月11日18时03 分 北京市新闻办公室 范涛 有关炸毁南京长江大桥的各类新闻以后不要转载，还在转载的，请立即删除。收到请回复，谢谢。 These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 23, 2012 (here). © Anne.Henochowicz for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Beijing, Beijing Internet Instructions, Canyu, CCTV, censorship, Censorship Vault, China Copyright and Media, Directives from the Ministry of Truth, Fan Tao, Internet cafes, Internet censorship, Ministry of Truth, Nanjing, Shuanggui, south korea, xian, Xinhua Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

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