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• Netizens Revel in People’s Daily-Onion Gaff
• Behind China’s Green Wall: Special Report
• Li Meets AIDS Activists as HIV Rates Rise
• China Approves Series of Infrastructure Projects
• New Leaders Rule Two Different Chinas
• 87th Self-Immolation, Death of Earlier Protester Reported
• Photo: Untitled, by Marco Barbieri
• Does Hu Xijin Favor Free Speech?
• Word of the Week: Hair Removal
• State Meddling Stifles China’s Film Industry
• Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (21)

Netizens Revel in People’s Daily-Onion Gaff Posted: 28 Nov 2012 07:44 PM PST Yesterday, the state-run People's Daily Online ran the story Kim Jong-un Named The Onion's Sexiest Man Alive For 2012, embellishing it with a 55-photo slideshow of the North Korean leader. The American parody paper later pointed readers to the People's Daily pages, praising the "exemplary reportage" of their "Communist subsidiary." Not surprisingly, the People's Daily post has since been removed. (Korea Times also missed the humor and reported the Onion story as real news.) Weibo denizens didn't miss a beat: OnionWeekly: Late in the evening, we learned that the Onion and People's Daily have conducted official communications, and People's Daily has received high praise from the Onion. We are somewhat please to announce that The Onion Weekly and the People's Daily represent the most authentic voice of China. 洋葱周刊：深夜获悉人民日报和洋葱新闻进行了业务交流，并获得得了洋葱新闻的高度赞赏，我们略感欣慰地表示，洋葱周刊和人民日报代表着中国最真实的声音。 JusticeProtectorTyrael: You really don't get it. The People's Daily Online is also a parody site! 正义守望者Tyrael：你真不懂啊。人民网也是专业恶搞的啊 Keluoyidu: Ironically, People's Daily Online just cannot fathom the existence of a fake news website on this earth. What is your State Administration of Radio, Film and Television doing?! 克洛伊杜：人民网无法想象这世界居然有假新闻网站，你们的广电管理局呢？！ TeacherHeJiong: Certainly, this mistake was committed by some temporary worker at @PeoplesDaily. It has nothing to do with the "newspaper of truth" @PeoplesDaily. 何囧老湿：这一定是@人民日报 临时工干的，与真理报@人民日报 无关。 HeiQiQideQi: So, in the eyes of the People's Daily, there can actually be "other media"? 黑柒柒的柒：人民网的眼中还能有"其它媒体"这个词？ SaltyRay: This because you are firewalled. You read English, but you are uncivilized. Man, that's gotta hurt. SaltyRay：让你防火墙 有英文没文化 内伤了吧 BetweenLight&Dark: You can see just how complacent the official Chinese media have become. 黑暗与光明之间: 可见中国官媒的固步自封到了什么程度 Durex_UnclePanda: I heard the editor of this article grew up on Party publications. 杜斯雷_Panda叔：据悉，该媒体编辑是读党报长大的。 YouYe: Re @2Badger: This is a problem of values. When they see the American imperialists experiencing a catastrophe, they gloat. When they see something good happen to Little Brother, they can't send their congratulations fast enough. As for authenticity… who cares? 悠野：回复@二獾:价值观的问题。看见美帝有啥灾祸就幸灾乐祸，看见小弟有啥喜事连忙道贺，至于新闻真实性，才不管呢。 Ivan: Seeing the People's Daily commit such a blunder, I can't help but worry about the intelligence of these "mouthpieces"… However, you really can't blame them. Nowadays, it's harder and harder to find great, glorious, and correct events. Stretched as they are for positive news, they would seize this opportunity like a fat kid on cake. I can understand if they were so happy that they forgot to judge its authenticity. 墨宇轩Ivan：看到人民网出这种糗，真的好替这些喉舌们的智商捉急…. 不过也难怪，现在一起走正路的伟光正形象越来越难找啦，捉襟见肘情形下，逮着一个如获至宝，都高兴的忘记去判断也可以理解 TooMuchTalent: I find this quite odd, as well. Chinese media mostly quote gossipy reporting from less authoritative foreign media organizations–especially reports that praise China. Could it be that the editors of our major domestic media outlets all got their jobs by going through the back door, too? 有才太有才了：我也很奇怪，国内媒体引用最多的都是国外的八卦小报，尤其是称赞中国的。难道国内大报社的编辑们也都是走后门进去的？ PretendInNY: The article is written like this: Although China has surpassed the United States in many ways, we still have the obvious upper hand when it comes to sarcasm and criticism. Because of this, the Onion–our main exporter of sarcasm and criticism–has successfully tricked the mouthpieces of Communist Party that Kim Jong-un is the sexiest man in the world. #andjustlikethatChinasaverageIQwaslowered# 假 装在纽约：文章是这样写的：中国也许已经在很多领域已经超过了美国，但是感谢上帝，我们在讽刺和批评这两件事上还有明显的优势。正因为如此，我们的洋葱新 闻——讽刺和批评的主要出口商——才能成功地让共产党的喉舌相信金正恩是世界上最性感的男人。#平均智商就是这样被人民日报拉低的# MuMuisHere: Perhaps according to the Party-media mentality, this occurrence is completely probable. In fact, in Mainland China, the concept of "black humor" isn't necessarily widespread — especially among the ranks of those within the system. 木木在这里：或者在党报的思维里，这件事是严肃的完全有可能发生的而且，在大陆，"黑色幽默"这个东西还不是普遍可以有，特别不是体制内的人有的东西。 GeLeixia: If the Party says he's sexy, he's sexy. 格蕾夏：party说他性感他就是性感   Via CDT Chinese. Translation by Little Bluegill. © Anne.Henochowicz for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: humor, Kim Jong-un, Netizen Voices, North Korea, people's daily, sina weibo, the onion, weibo Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Behind China’s Green Wall: Special Report Posted: 28 Nov 2012 07:16 PM PST Lured by a potentially huge green technology market, Canadian and other foreign companies are struggling to navigate China's risky business environment. From Geoff Dembicki at The Tyee: Westport appears to be living the cleantech dream: sell big to Chinese markets, and help save the planet. Global economic power is shifting to the East. China is in the midst of a green revolution. Its market for environmental protection and energy savings technology will be worth US$473 billion by 2015, a China Merchants Securities report predicts. The Communist government sees the fight against climate change not as a burden on China's growth, but as the chance to transition to a high-tech economy. "By virtually every metric that matters, China is the place to be doing business in cleantech these days," said Dallas Kachan, managing partner of Kachan & Co., an international cleantech consultancy. Yet very few companies from Canada's $10.6-billion cleantech sector have followed Westport's lead. Many see a nightmare instead of a dream, where Chinese partners entice them overseas, steal their technology, and drive them nearly bankrupt. […] […] One horror story has gotten a lot of attention in cleantech circles. In March 2011, China's Sinovel, the world's second largest maker of wind turbines, abruptly cancelled a shipment of operating software from America's AMSC, a high-tech firm specializing in clean energy solutions. "We first thought that [the cancellation] was an inventory issue, and we were understanding," the firm's Jason Fredette told one reporter. But in China not long after, an AMSC employee discovered a Sinovel wind turbine running on expired AMSC software. The company got suspicious. The article is the first in a series set to run throughout the week. See more on green technology via CDT. © Mengyu Dong for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: clean energy, environmental cooperation, foreign investment in China, green technology Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Li Meets AIDS Activists as HIV Rates Rise Posted: 28 Nov 2012 06:58 PM PST China's Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that HIV rates have risen through the first ten months of the year, according to Xinhua News: From January to October, 16,131 new cases of HIV infections among citizens over 50 were reported, marking a year-on-year increase of 20.2 percent. There were also 9,514 new cases of HIV reported among young people aged 15 to 24, up 12.8 percent year on year, according to figures from the Ministry of Health (MOH). The MOH said the HIV/AIDS epidemic is rampant in some locations and among certain groups of people. In total, China reported 492,191 cases of HIV/AIDS by the end of October, and 68,802 of these were new cases reported this year, according to the MOH. Incoming Premier Li Keqiang presided over a meeting of the State Council commission on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment on Monday, according to Xinhua News, and said that the government should spend more on anti-AIDS efforts. Reuters reports that he also met with non-governmental HIV/AIDS groups and promised to let them play a bigger role in fighting the epidemic: "You have a greater understanding of what sufferers want … the government will continue to offer support and pay even greater attention to and listen more closely to the voices of civil society groups and you will be given greater space to play your role," state television cited him as saying. It also showed pictures of Li shaking hands with sufferers, in a country where discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS is rampant, even in the health-care community. The South China Morning Post also pointed out the sensitive link between the issue of HIV/AIDS and Li's career: The issue was also behind one of the biggest black marks on Li's career: efforts to cover up a massive HIV outbreak in Henan province in the late 1990s when Li was governor. Tens of thousands of farmers contracted HIV from tainted blood acquired through government blood-donation schemes in the early and mid-1990s. Although Li was not involved in the programme, his muzzling of the media and crackdowns on protests were controversial. "Now that he'll be the next premier, he's apparently aware of such a blemish in his résumé which subjects him to scrutiny," said Liu Yige, a legal specialist with the Aids activist group Love, Knowledge and Action. "He's also aware of the high expectation for him to become a reform-minded premier, so he needs to work on something to prove that to the world." © Scott Greene for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: epidemic, healthcare, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Li Keqiang, Ministry of Health, NGO Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

China Approves Series of Infrastructure Projects Posted: 28 Nov 2012 06:54 PM PST Aiming to boost its economy, China has recently approved huge budget allocations for railway and subway projects. From Reuters: China has approved construction of two city subway projects worth 49 billion yuan ($7.87 billion), adding to the list of recent railway project approvals aimed at boosting growth in the world's second biggest economy. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) also approved a feasibility study on an inter-city rail line between Fuzhou and Pingtan, an island off the coast of Fujian, worth a further 26 billion yuan, Shanghai Securities News reported Tuesday. The projects appear to be aimed at shoring up growth in China's economy, which has slowed for seven consecutive quarters, most recently posting 7.4 percent annual growth for the third quarter. [...] Reuters estimated that a flurry of new project approvals announced in early September totaled $157 billion. See more on railways in China via CDT. © Mengyu Dong for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: construction project, infrastructure projects, public transportation, railways, subway Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

New Leaders Rule Two Different Chinas Posted: 28 Nov 2012 06:26 PM PST Has China's recent leadership transition ushered in a period of solidarity? Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer thinks so, as he notes the consolidation of power at the top of the Communist Party and makes some predictions about the challenges the incoming leaders will face. From Reuters: This new regime will govern a China that is increasingly two different countries. On the coast, the country is developed, with the amenities of a post-industrialized society. In the countryside, China is still a developing country, with hundreds of millions of people living in poverty. In 2010, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, there was a nearly threefold difference in per capita incomes between coastal China and inland China. Likewise, China now has more income inequality than the United States, making China 27th in the world overall. Those Chinas want different things from their leaders. People making $20,000 a year in prosperous cities don't need 8 percent growth. They need product safety, government accountability, transparency, clean air and water ‑ good government, in other words, without all the lies and the secret wealth. People in the interior, on the other hand, need growth and goods. Government transparency means less to those who live hand to mouth. This is what the 21st century economy has wrought, but China clings to its 20th century political system. Ten years ‑ the expected stint of the current Politburo members (though there will be room for halftime adjustments) ‑ is a long time to live with so fundamental a contradiction. Pressures will mount from within and without for China to modernize its political approach to match the economic reforms it must undertake. But those hoping for political reform are sure to be disappointed, no matter how much they pine for them on Weibo or in the halls of the United Nations. The leadership change, remember, was all about solidarity, both for the Communist Party and with the party's past efforts. Citizens on both ends of the spectrum may grumble, but the Chinese leadership will continue its slow and cautious approach ‑ and its focus, first and foremost, will be on consolidating power and eliminating threats to the party's hold on power. On the Politburo's list of priorities, political innovations will run a distant second. Meanwhile, though little evidence remains of the 18th Party Congress which took place earlier this month, The New York Times' Amy Qin reports that nostalgia still lingers for some residents of Beijing: Liu Ji, 63, was one of the many sprightly retirees called upon by security officials this month to work as informal traffic cops, taking to the streets to keep unruly pedestrians and drivers in line. In a city with more than five million registered cars, it was not the most relaxing task. But Ms. Liu, a longtime Communist Party member, said it was an honor to play a role during the weeklong event, even if it meant tackling the city's nightmarish congestion equipped with only a red armband and a flag. "To help out even just a little is a glorious feeling," she said. But now, the heart of this ancient capital has returned to what passes for normal these days: hazy gray skies above the granite expanse; crowds of tourists, both Chinese and foreign, milling around and posing for photographs; and uniformed security officers watching them carefully in front of the Forbidden City. (Less familiar was the sight of some of those officers zipping around the square on two-wheeled, Segway-like vehicles as the ageless Mao Zedong gazed down from his portrait.) Elsewhere, pirated DVDs and English-language books on China have reappeared on shelves after having been relegated to storerooms in some shops. Several prominent activists who were asked to leave Beijing during the conclave have slowly found their way back to their homes. © Scott Greene for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: 18th party congress, Beijing, inequality, leadership transition, Politburo Standing Committee, reform Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

87th Self-Immolation, Death of Earlier Protester Reported Posted: 28 Nov 2012 05:01 PM PST Dharamsala-based Phayul.com reports the 25th self-immolation case this month and news of one of the five Tibetans who set fire to themselves on November 7th, on the eve of China's 18th Party Congress. The man is said to have died in police custody on November 18th after allegedly being refused treatment for his burns. The total now stands at 87 cases since 2009, excluding four cases in India, one in Nepal, and two unconfirmed cases in Sichuan. "Sangay Tashi, 18, set himself on fire at around 12 midnight Tuesday, November 27 in Sangkhog town," an exiled Tibetan monk Sonam told Phayul citing contacts in the region. "He passed away at the site of his protest." […] Sangay Tashi arrived in Sangkhog town earlier that day with his friends. Before setting himself on fire, he reportedly called one of his relatives and told him that he had decided to set himself on fire for the cause of Tibet. Before his relative could carry on the conversation, Sangay Tashi hung up the phone and switched it off. By the time Sangay Tashi's family members arrived in Sangkhog, he had already carried out his self-immolation protest. Sonam, an exile Tibetan living in Switzerland, told Phayul that Tsegyu set himself ablaze at around 7pm (local time) on November 7, in Tingser village of Bekar town in Driru (Ch: Biru) region of Nagchu, in an apparent protest against China's continued occupation of Tibet. […] Confirming the reports, Dharamshala based rights group Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in a release today said Tsegyu received no medical treatment while in detention at a local police station in Nagchu. "For less than two weeks, from November 7 to 18, Tsegyal received no treatment for his burns while being held at the local police station in Nagchu town," TCHRD said citing sources. "Tsegyal died in the evening of November 18 in police custody." Heavy restrictions on journalists in Tibetan areas make independent verification of these reports difficult or impossible. As Kristin Jones wrote at the Committee to Protect Journalists in February, "by preventing reporters from doing their jobs, Chinese officials all but guarantee that activists are the ones reporting the news." The Associated Press' Christopher Bodeen examined the protests' tactics and escalation, and Beijing's uncertain response. "I think the problem will just escalate over time. The government shows no inclination to respond positively to recommendations for reform from the outside or Tibetans," said Michael Davis, a law professor and expert on Tibet at the University of Hong Kong. […] The surge in self-immolations represents an awareness of the impact they are having among the Tibetan community and internationally, said Robbie Barnett, a Tibet expert at New York's Columbia University. That would likely inspire further protests, increasing the numbers of Tibetans willing to take their lives for the sake of their community, he said. […] While local authorities have cracked down hard following the self-immolations and other protests, authorities in Beijing have said relatively little other than to issue routine denunciations of the Dalai Lama and his followers. That indicates they are uncertain how to respond in a way that would bolster their authority and prevent the acts of defiance snow-balling into a full-blown protest movement, Barnett said. U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke discussed the self-immolations with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday: Christiane Amanpour: We want to know from your perspective whether the new leader Xi Jinping will be any different on Tibet, for instance, because there have been many burnings by ethnic Tibetans, another four reported just today in China; I know you've met with some ethnic Tibetans. What do you think is the prospect for any different kind of relationship, Ambassador? Gary Locke: Well, we're just going to have to wait and see, but obviously the United States is very concerned about the situation, the heightened tensions in the Tibetan areas, the deplorable self-immolations and of course just the policies of the Chinese government at all levels. And we're publicly and privately constantly urging the Chinese to re-examine some of their policies that threaten the linguistic identity, cultural identity, and religious identity of the Tibetan people. See also 'Tibet Self-Immolations Moving to "New Phase"; 86th Reported' and previous posts on the protests at CDT. © Samuel Wade for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Dharamsala, Gary Locke, Robert Barnett, self-immolations, Tibet, Tibetan exiles, Tibetan protests, United States Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Photo: Untitled, by Marco Barbieri Posted: 28 Nov 2012 02:26 PM PST Untitled © Samuel Wade for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Does Hu Xijin Favor Free Speech? Posted: 28 Nov 2012 01:23 PM PST Incriminating? T-shirt proclaiming "Give me liberty or give me death." Netizens were dumbstruck by Global Times Chief Editor Hu Xijin's November 21 weibo in favor of free speech: HuXijin: I hope the long-term impact of the Ren Jianyu case in today's Internet age is the establishment of precedent that will end the political and cultural tradition of the  "criminalization of speech." Political speech and the propagation of [other's] speech which does not infringe upon the rights of others and does not precipitate concrete action should not be criminalized. In other words, if "comment deletion" must continue for a time, then a resolute end should come to the "criminalization of comment posting." This is a key pathway to achieving a higher level of free speech. 胡锡进：希望任建宇案在互联网时代产生判例的长远影响，终结"因言获罪"的政治和文化传统。不涉及侵权和无任何实际行动的政治性言论和言论传播应获得绝对不 被治罪的权利，换句话说，如果"删贴"还不得不维持一段的话，那么各种"因帖治罪"应彻底结束了。这应是通往更高言论自由的一个关键性台阶。 Ren Jianyu, a young village official in Chongqing, was sentenced to two years of re-education through labor last August for reposting critiques of Chongqing officials on Weibo. This was just months before Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai's protracted fall from grace. Authorities claimed that T-shirts found in Ren's apartment emblazoned with the slogan "Give me liberty or give me death" (不自由，毋宁死) proved his intent to stage a coup. Ren was released early from detention on November 19. Hu Xijin, known as a Party apologist, has been notably outspoken in defense of Ren. He wrote a weibo in this vein in October, before Ren's appeal court hearing (translated by Tea Leaf Nation): HuXijin: The appeal hearing of Pengshui University student village official Ren Jianyu's sentencing to re-education through labor for Weibo retweets has begun. I believe he'll win. Because [what he did] didn't harm any individual person, and it was pure speech that didn't create any social conflicts–the era when these kinds of commentary could be punished for being 'against the Party [or] against socialism' needs to come to a thorough conclusion. I hope that when this case is rectified, it will [cut down] the last straw of a thousand-year political tradition of criminalized speech. China needs to move forward." 胡锡进：重庆彭水县大学生村官任建宇转发微博被劳教申诉案开审。我相信他能赢。因为不带来个人伤害、也不带来社会冲击的的纯言论——无它这些言论多么"反党反社会 主义"——而被治罪的时代该彻底结束了。希望这个案子的纠正成为压倒"因言获罪"千年政治传统的最后一根稻草。中国要往前走。 But netizens shouldn't get too excited about this about-face. As @waynebabywang (@韦恩卑鄙) points out, Hu still supports censorship through deletion of offending posts. Could it be that Hu thinks this is necessary in a slow move towards real freedom of speech, or merely that he opposes violent punishment for speech "crimes"? Even if Hu does advocate for eventual freedom of speech, he won't touch the core problem. @yrjang says it right, " If there is no check on power, sooner or later we'll backtrack." Indeed, just one week before Ren's release, another netizen was arrested for his activity on Twitter, beyond the Great Firewall but not the reach of the police. CDT Chinese has collected some of the comments Hu received: HowToThank: Whoa! The harmonious society has begun, eh? 谢怎么：哟，和谐社会开始了是吗 WhiteRiverFishForMen: Is Chief Hu experiencing temporary consciousness? Regardless, you have to give him credit for this one. 白河钓叟：胡总临时性清醒？无论如何要赞一个 yrjang: Keep dreaming. If there is no check on power, sooner or later we'll backtrack. yrjang：做梦，权力不受制约，迟早还得倒退。 kejinjin: Certainly, I must have opened up my weibo incorrectly or something. This can't be Hu Xijin, right? His account must have been compromised. 肥羊高翔 ：一定是我打开微博的方式不对这货不是胡锡进，一定是被盗号了 BlueDanube01: Heh heh, you can see which way the wind is blowing from Editor Hu's weibo. 蓝色多瑙河01：呵呵，从胡编滴微博可以看看风往哪边吹。 UnoilyRapeseed: I support this! Re-education through labor must be abandoned! 菜籽不油：支持! 勞教惡法必須廢! EternalFatLegEra: Editor Hu, what happened to you? Could it be that political reform is actually on its way? 永远是大腿时代：胡编你肿么了？莫非真要政改了？ HappilyTravelHorizon: I applaud Chief Hu this time. Freedom of speech is a legal right of all citizens, given to us by the constitution. It's written down on paper. 逍遥天涯行：这一次赞扬胡总。言论自由是公民的法定权利，宪法赋予的，写在纸上的。 FishWantsPotatoesNBeef: Why can't our government earn international respect? Because our government hasn't respected its own people. 想吃土豆烧牛肉的青鱼：为什么我们政府得不到国际的尊重？是因为我们政府没有尊重自己的人民。 Cadenza: I bet the central authorities had you test water for them, right? 華彩_Cadenza：是中央让你来放口风的吗？ Silentcnm: Did he give his password to someone else????? 沉默cnm：密码给别人了?????? HappyEarthlyPerson: Now this is a humane thought! Reposting. Could it be that Chief Editor Hu is a moral bisexual? 逍遥地人：这条像点人话！要转。难不成胡主编是人格上的双性？ MESSIAH-: He's moving faster than the higher-ups. Isn't he afraid of being criticized? MESSIAH-：步调比上面快了，不怕挨批吗？ waynebabywang: He's just kissing ass in a new way. He still mentioned that comments will continue to be deleted, and there's nothing you can do about it. 韦恩卑鄙：舔菊新方向而已，着重表示删帖继续，你们管不着 Westernwuhuapiao: A Nobel Peace Laureate is still in prison 西部五花膘：那还关着一个诺贝尔奖获得者 Read more comments here. Translation by Little Bluegill. © Anne.Henochowicz for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: censorship, Chongqing, freedom of speech, Global Times, Hu xijin, Internet censorship, Netizen Voices, netizens, political reform, re-education through labor, Ren Jianyu, sina weibo, weibo Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Word of the Week: Hair Removal Posted: 28 Nov 2012 12:00 PM PST Editor's Note: The CDT Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon is a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China's online "resistance discourse," used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness. The Word of the Week features Lexicon entries old, new and timely. If you are interested in participating in this project by submitting and/or translating terms, please contact the CDT editors at CDT [at] chinadigitaltimes [dot] net. 去毛 (qù máo): hair removal Mao excised from the 100 yuan bill. While most search results for this term are for sites selling shaving creams and razors, it also has a political meaning. Mao Zedong's surname (毛) literally means "hair." Therefore, to "de-hair" can also mean to de-Mao; 去毛化 (qù máo huà) means "de-Mao-ification," or the minimization of Mao Zedong thought and Mao's role in history. © Anne.Henochowicz for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: censorship, grass-mud horse lexicon, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong Thought, netizens Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

State Meddling Stifles China’s Film Industry Posted: 28 Nov 2012 10:01 AM PST In the International Herald Tribune, Didi Kirsten Tatlow writes about the delayed opening of a recent movie, The Last Supper, and how government control over the film industry is impacting filmmakers' creativity as well as their profits: The delay points to a central quandary regarding culture in China today. Officials want to impress the world with its richness, but they also want to manage it as they have managed the economy, and this constant meddling leaves culture in a deeply uncomfortable place, suspended between genuine creativity and political correctness, between greatness and mediocrity. In film, weak ideas, often because of political restraints and bowdlerized scripts, and delayed openings because of lengthy censorship are weakening the ability of Chinese directors to attract audiences. As foreign imports increase, people are voting with their feet and domestic movies are slipping financially. [...] To try to change that, film bureaucrats said last week that the National Film Development Fund would return its 5 percent cut of box office takings to theaters that show more domestic films, in a kind of reward. Yet in a sign of what officials really intend, at the same news conference, Sun Zhijun, deputy head of the party's Propaganda Department, said: "Some media organizations and people believe that deepening the cultural reform is for the purposes of making the culture an industry and wholly market-based. This is not true." In an accompanying blog post, Tatlow writes about the difficulties of parsing out why censors choose to restrict one film over another. For more on how State Administration on Radio, Film, and Television censors films, see the text of a decision to censor the 2000 film Devils on the Doorstep, via CDT. © Sophie Beach for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: art censorship, film censorship, film industry, SARFT Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (21) Posted: 28 Nov 2012 09:42 AM 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. 21 June 2006, 8:59, Fan Tao If the comment article "Changes in the Final Structure of the Allocation of Our National Income, Tilted Towards Government" from the Shanghai Securities Daily appears on any website, please speedily delete it! Please acknowledge receipt! 22 June 2006, 9:00, Chen Hua Search for, comb out and shield "Summary of the Xishan Meeting" and corresponding content; concerning the matter of a female student being killed in a collision on the campus of Guangdong Agricultural University, do not report or discuss it. 22 June 2006, 11:32, Chen Hua I: (1) Concerning "Removing Officials and Bringing Down the Cabinet," "The Nasty Case of the Son-In-Law of Chen Shui-bian" and other matters on Taiwan, only report it, do not comment or guess on it, it is not permitted to use foreign media commentary. (2) The development of the main reporting on the state of affairs, must be subject to quantity control of news reports in this regard, about 100 articles. (3) Do not make netizens' posts or blogged articles into official news for transmission, where forum, tracker or blog discussions become extreme, irrational or not beneficial to the grand scheme of achieving national unification, where discussions seize the opportunity to attack our policies towards Taiwan or attack our social system, or where there is unlawful or harmful information, this must be timely deleted. (4) For reports concerning the situation on Taiwan, only reprint Xinhua copy, it is not permitted to edit and translate foreign media information. (5) For major sudden incidents, propaganda discipline must be strictly obeyed, only transmit Xinhua copy, it is not permitted to gather or edit information by oneself, it is not permitted to publish comments without authorization, it is not permitted to edit and release foreign media information, articles or comments. II: Some media reported that the "Pioneer" group president Liu Xiaoguang is under investigation of the Central Discipline Inspection Committee and that the Hong Kong traded company "Pioneer Enterprises" has been removed from the stock market in Hong Kong, on the basis of reports from the Beijing side, the above information does not conform to the facts, websites are not to reprint it without exception, existing information must be immediately removed, forums and blogs are also not to post this. 22 June 2006, 11:54, Wu Haihong (On the basis of telephone content records, 1, 2 and 4 are titles, 3 is the corresponding event, there is no title.) I: Female Student Dies on Some Guangdong University Campus After Being Hit by Military Vehicle II: Power Outage at Some Sichuan University Incited Student Riot III: Delete all reports concerning the student riot in Zhengzhou University (there is no title). IV: Riots at Shanxi Zhongbei University Because of Dormitory Move. 22 June 2006, 12:48, Chen Hua Urgent. Please rapidly screen out the matter of a large-scale student riot at Zhengzhou University Economy and Trade Faculty, rapidly screen out, search for and block this, do not report anything influences stability at Beijing higher education institutes, notify educational channels and blogs. 22 June 2006, 17:17, Fan Tao Search for and delete non-Xinhua copy concerning the "incident of the Fujian Industry and Commerce Bureau Director Zhou Jinhui fleeing abroad" published on websites, strengthen supervision and control. 26 June 2006, 10:23, Fan Tao Original notice text: All websites are to speedily delete "Female China International Economy and Trade Arbitration Commission Deputy Section Director Murdered." 27 June 2006, 18:45, Network Management Office, Duty manager (1) The special subject of the 85th anniversary of the Party's founding is to be put in one line with running the web in a civilized manner and red memories, on a red background. When there are important remembrance activities and important speeches by central leaders, the World Cup special subject must make room at the large header position. Persist in preventing the playing up of negative news, and create a positive and upward online public opinion atmosphere for remembrance activities. Strengthen management over forums, blogs and news trackers, rumours, attacks, distortions and all other sorts of harmful information must be firmly and timely deleted. (2) If there is information on "Chinese Navy Ship 774 Sinks after Collision" on forums, speedily delete it, and strengthen blocking. (3) Concerning the matter of "CCTV Statement on Cancelling the Evening Broadcast of the National Anthem after Revision," websites are no longer to reprint matters, report this or comment on this, existing news is to be pushed to the back stage, management over forums and blogs must be strengthened, timely delete attacks, abuses and other harmful information. Please earnestly implement the above requirements!! 28 June 2006, 10:09, Network Management Office, Duty manager Everyone, today in the afternoon, the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Council Information Office convened the teleconference on "Soundly Move Running the Web in a Civilized Manner and Using the Web in a Civilized Manner Activities Forward, Deeply Launch the 'Sunlight and Green Network Project,'" all websites are requested to transmit the conference press releases published on People's Daily Net and Xinhua Net on the main page of their website in the important news section, as well as the speech of director Cai Wu and Minister Wang Xudong, and leave them there for 24 hours. Put it in the section on running the web in a civilized manner, replace the special subject with the title. 28 June 2006, 10:56, Network Management Office, Duty manager All websites, close all trackers without exception for articles concerning the 85th anniversary of the Party. It is reiterated again that when there are large remembrance activities and speeches by central leaders, they must be put on the header of the main page of websites on a read background, and the header of the news center, the World Cup must make way. This must be implemented. 28 June 2006, 14:56, Network Management Office, Duty manager All websites are requested to continue to delete content related to Chen Qiuhua (airplane crash expert). 28 June 2006, 18:38 All websites are requested to reprint the report about the teleconference convened today in the afternoon by the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Council Information Office on the main page of websites and the important news section of news centers. The article link is: http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2006-06/28/content_4762266.htm. This article must be maintained on the main page for at least 24 hours. 28 June 2006, 18:40, Chen Hua To report the gas explosion accident at the Wulong Colliery of the Liaoning Fuxin Mining Group, websites are only to use Xinhua copy and news conference copy from Liaoning province, do not set up news trackers; concerning the matter of deliberating the "Sudden Incident Response Law" (Draft), websites are only to use Xinhua copy or corresponding copy from the People's Daily, must strengthen management over news trackers, forums and blogs, and timely delete attacks, abuses and other harmful information; for articles related to income allocation and other problems, only use copy from main central news work units, this may not be played up, also don't do online surveys. Management over forums, trackers, blogs, etc. must be strengthened, timely block misrepresentations, attacks, extremes and other harmful discourse. 29 June 2006, 9:30, Fan Tao The "Sudden Incident Response Law" (Draft) has been submitted to the 22nd Meeting of the 10th National People's Congress Standing Committee for deliberation a few days ago. In order to guarantee that corresponding work proceeds smoothly, concerning the matter of deliberating the "Sudden Incident Response Law" (Draft), websites are only to use Xinhua copy and corresponding People's Daily comments, must strengthen management over news trackers, forums and blogs, and timely delete attacks, misrepresentations and other harmful information. 29 June 2006, 17:17, Fan Tao Recently, posts about a mass incident at the Qingdao Feiyang Professional and Technical College in Shandong emerged on a number of websites and forums, and some people seized the opportunity to stir up things. In order to maintain stability, websites are not to disseminate information related to the mass incident at the Qingdao Feiyang Professional and Technical College without exception, must strengthen management over forums and blogs, and timely delete relevant information.   2006年6月北京网管办发出的禁令（三） 2006年6月21日08时59分 范 涛 各网如发现有《上海证券报》的评论文章"我国国民收入分配最终格局的变化 正向政府倾斜"请迅速删除！收到请回复！ 2006年6月22日09时00分 陈华 搜索、清查、屏蔽"西山会议纪要"及相关内容；关于广东农业大学校园内一女生被撞死一事，不报导、不讨论。 2006年6月22日11时32分 陈华 一： 1、对岛内"罢免和倒阁"及"陈水扁女婿涉弊案"等事件，只报道不评论、不猜测，不得引用境外媒体评论。 2、主要报道事态的发展，这方面新闻报道跟帖要控制数量，100条左右。 3、不得将网民帖文、博客文章作正式新闻稿转发，对论坛、跟贴、博客中过激的、非理性的、不利于祖国统一大业的言论，对借机攻击我对台方针政策、攻击我社会制度的言论，对违法有害信息要及时删除。 4、关于岛内局势的报道只转发新华社稿件，不得编译境外媒体消息。 5、重大突发事件，要严格遵守宣传纪律，只转新华社通稿，不得自采、自编消息，不得擅自发表评论，不得编发境外媒体消息、文章、评论。 二： 有媒体报道"首创"集团总经理刘晓光被中纪委调查以及香港上市公司"首创置业"在港停牌的消息，据北京方面告，上述消息均与事实不符，网站一律不转发，已有的要立即撤除，论坛、博客也不贴发。 2006年6月22日11时54分 吴海红 （根据电话内容记录，一，二，四为标题，三是相关事件，无标题） 请删除以下新闻： 一；广州某大学女生被军车在校园内撞死 二；四川某大学因停电引发学生骚乱 三：删除所有关于郑州大学学生骚乱的报道（没有标题） 四：山西中北大学因宿舍搬迁引发骚乱 2006年6月22日12时48分 陈华 急。请速清查郑州大学达经贸学院发生大规模学生骚乱一事 速各自清查 搜索屏蔽 影响北京高校稳定的不报道 通知教育频道 博客 2006年6月22日17时17分 范 涛 搜索并删除站内发布的关于"福建工商局长周金伙外逃事件"的非新华社稿，加强监控。 2006年6月26日10时23分范 涛 通知原文: 各网速删《中国国际经贸仲裁委员会女副处长遭劫杀》 2006年6月27日18时45分网管办值班 1、建党85周年的纪念专题与文明办网、红色记忆放在一行，套红摆放。有重要纪念活动和中央领导的重要讲话时，世界杯专题必须让出大头条位置。坚决 制止负面新闻炒作，为纪念活动营造积极向上的网上舆论氛围。加强对论坛、博客和新闻跟帖的管理，对造谣、攻击、歪曲等各类有害信息必须坚决、及时删除。 2、论坛中如有"中国海军774舰被撞沉"的消息，迅速删除，并加强封堵； 3、有关"央视就改版后取消晚间国歌播放声明"事，网站不再转载、报道、评论，已有新闻压至后台，要加强对论坛、博客跟帖的管理，及时删除攻击、谩骂等有害信息。 以上要求请认真执行！！ 2006年6月28日10时09分 网管办值班 各位，今天下午信息产业部和国务院新闻办将联合召开"扎实推进文明办网 文明上网活动 深入开展'阳光·绿色网络工程'"电视电话会议，请各网站在首页要闻区突出转发好人民网、新华网登载的会议新闻稿，以及蔡武主任、王旭东部长在会上的讲 话，并保留24小时。放在文明办网位置上，以标题带专题。 2006年6月28日10时56分 网管办值班 各网：关于建党85周年的稿件，一律关闭跟帖。再次强调，有大的纪念活动和中央领导讲话时，必须套红放网站首页头条，新闻中心面头条，世界杯必须让路。务必执行。 2006年6月28日14时56分 网管办值班 各网请继续清除有关陈秋华（坠机事件中的专家）的内容 2006年6月28日18时38分 请各网在网站首页、新闻中心要闻区位置转发今天下午信息产业部、国新办联合召开的电视电话会议的报道。 文章链接为：http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2006-06/28/content_4762266.htm 此文章至少要在首页保留24小时。 2006年6月28日18时40分 陈华 有关辽宁阜新矿业集团五龙煤矿瓦斯爆炸事故的报道，网站只使用新华社通稿和辽宁省新闻发布会稿件，不设新闻跟帖；有关审议《突发事件应对法》（草 案）事，网站只使用新华社通稿和人民日报相关评论，要加强对新闻跟帖、论坛、博客的管理，及时删除攻击、歪曲等有害信息；收入分配等问题有关文章只使用中 央主要新闻单位稿件，不得炒作，也不搞网上调查。要加强对论坛、跟帖、博客等的管理，及时封堵删除歪曲、攻击、偏激等有害言论。 2006年6月29日09时30分 范 涛 《突发事件应对法》（草案）已于日前提交十届全国人大常委会第二十二次会议审议。为保证相关工作顺利进行，有关审议《突发事件应对法》（草案）事，网站只使用新华社通稿和人民日报相关评论，要加强对新闻跟帖、论坛、博客的管理，及时删除攻击、歪曲等有害信息。 2006年6月29日17时17分 范 涛 近日，一些网站论坛出现山东青岛飞洋职业技术学院群体性事件帖文，一些人借机煽动。为维护稳定，网站一律不传播有关青岛飞洋职业技术学院群体性事件的消息，要加强对论坛、博客的管理，及时删除有关信息。 These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 28, 2012 (here). © Anne.Henochowicz for China Digital Times (CDT), 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Beijing, Beijing Internet Instructions, Cai Wu, Canyu, CCTV, censorship, Censorship Vault, Chen Hua, Chen Shui-bian, China Copyright and Media, civilized Web, Directives from the Ministry of Truth, Fan Tao, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Internet censorship, Jufian, Liaoning, Liu Xiaoguang, mining accidents, Ministry of Information Industry, Ministry of Truth, netizens, people's daily, propoganda, Qingdao, riots, Shandong, Shanghai, Shanxi, Sichuan, State Council Information Office, student protests, sudden incidents, Taiwan, World Cup, Wu Haihong, Xinhua, Zhengzhou Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall

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