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Born and raised in China, sent to study in the UK by her wealthy father Zhao Yuji 赵玉吉 at age 15 and later moved to US, but retained Chinese citizenship as far as is publicly known.

In 2013 she told the magazine Filmmaker https://web.archive.org/web/20130814185314/https://filmmakermagazine.com/people/chloe-zhao/[] (later removed from the website):

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It goes back to when I was a teenager in China, being in a place where there are lies everywhere. You felt like you were never going to be able to get out. A lot of info I received when I was younger was not true, and I became very rebellious toward my family and my background. I went to England suddenly and relearned my history. Studying political science in a liberal arts college was a way for me to figure out what is real. Arm yourself with information, and then challenge that too.
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TODO was that the only comment she ever made or is there more?

Won the 2021 Oscar (93rd) for best picture and best director on 2021-04-25 for her film Nomadland 无依之地.

And at the same time she was also working on an idiotic superhero movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternals_(film) to be launched by Disney in the future, and therefore they would likely want it to be released in China, let's see how that will go.

On 2021-04-26 reports emerged that her win was being censored in China: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-censors-nomadland-director-chloe-zhaos-oscar-win-11619440550 Unlike <<hao-haidong>> however, the order was much more specific: to censor only the fact that she won the Oscars.

As of 2021-04-27 her <<baidu-baike>> page https://baike.baidu.com/item/赵婷/22214113 was still up: https://web.archive.org/web/20210427075523/https://baike.baidu.com/item/赵婷/22214113  let's see how long it lasts. But the page failed to mention the minor detail that she on the Oscar. The comment section, which we're unable to archive contained two types comments:

* she's an American citizen now, not Chinese, just it wasn't reported. But no one has any proof.
* she won the Oscar

https://web.archive.org/web/20210413095903/https://baike.baidu.com/tashuo/browse/content?id=c9fdac1dcf27bdd1280ac9e1&lemmaId=22214113&fromLemmaModule=pcBottom contains a prediction that she would win the Oscar based on earlier recent wins.

The page for the 93rd Oscar mysteriously does not exit however: https://baike.baidu.com/item/第93届奥斯卡金像奖 unlike that of all others: https://baike.baidu.com/item/第92届奥斯卡金像奖 (https://archive.ph/wip/gGGtn[archive]) We can't find an archive either, but it is overwhelmingly likely that it was  created and later deleted.

On <<zhihu>> the topic 93rd Oscar "第93 届奥斯卡金像奖" https://www.zhihu.com/topic/21594057 was deleted:

* up 2021-04-09 https://archive.ph/dZAHE with 13 questions
* down 2021-04-27 https://archive.ph/wip/LYwOb

The Chloe Zhao topic https://www.zhihu.com/topic/20175085/hot was still up: 2021-04-27 with 8 questions: https://archive.ph/wip/CI3vz but funnily that website is so shit that it still links to some deleted questions e.g.: which used to read https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/368060294 "赵婷获第93届奥斯卡最佳导演奖，有思想的女孩子最可爱" but is down https://archive.ph/wip/6eiTl

Some archived deleted threads:

* https://www.zhihu.com/question/420850041 (https://www.zhihu.com/question/420850041[archive]) 如何评价中国导演赵婷作品《无依之地》获得第 77 届威尼斯电影节最高奖金狮奖？ What do you think about Chloe Zhao's work nomadland that won the 77th Venice Film Festival

The page of the film is still up 2021-04-27 https://baike.baidu.com/item/无依之地/50656178 (https://web.archive.org/web/20210413021635/https://baike.baidu.com/item/无依之地/50656178[archive]).

.<<chloe-zhao>> holding the 2021 Oscars for best director and best film. The fact that she won was censored in China because she made one single negative comment about the CCP in 2013.
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Chloe_Zhao_won_93rd_Oscar.jpg[height=500]

[[howey-ou]]
==== Howey Ou (欧泓奕, 2019)

The Chinese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg[Great Thunberg]. Environment activist. She speakes English too.

Mandatory <<zhihu>> question: https://www.zhihu.com/question/354163461 "如何看待中国首位气候活动家欧泓奕?"

Social media:

* https://twitter.com/howey_ou
* https://weibo.com/u/7305598806

News coverage:

* 2020-09-25 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3103548/greta-thunberg-criticises-china-after-climate-striker-ou-hongyi "Greta Thunberg criticises China after climate striker Ou Hongyi held over protest" detained in Shanghai 
* 2020-06-20 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/20/chinas-first-climate-striker-cant-return-to-school "China's first climate striker warned: give it up or you can't go back to school"

.Howey Ou skipped classes for a week to protest about climate change in front of the local government office in Guilin in 2019. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3094873/howey-ou-chinas-version-greta-thunberg-pays-price-climate[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Howey_Ou_2019.jpg[height=400]

==== University student dissidents abroad

* 2020-07 Dong Wuyuan 洞物员 (alias Horror Zoo)
** TODO real name? 洞物员 is the same sound as zoo in Chinese (动物园) which matches the English alias
** https://twitter.com/horror_zoo
** https://twitter.com/FakeNewsOfChina account run by Dong, with many funny anti-CCP images
** https://www.voachinese.com/a/the-reach-of-the-state-07032020/5487187.html "党国的手伸向海外每一个角落，要你封口"
** https://hk.appledaily.com/us/20200703/AFQNIBP76SMDK7KXJIR5Q2QAXQ/ "Police try to silence Chinese students abroad with threats to families"
** https://hk.appledaily.com/china/20200703/VR4EYZ4UHTECBUILPY5UBJILSQ/

[[opengl106]]
===== Ji Ziyue 季子越 (2020-06, opengl106, 神楽坂梓月)

Aliases: opengl106 神楽坂梓月

Accounts:

* https://github.com/opengl106
** most projects are university course assignments: https://github.com/opengl106/UCAS-assignments-19 | https://github.com/cirosantilli/UCAS-assignments-20 and are generic computer science topics, so maybe not so specialized in bioinformatics
* https://twitter.com/opengl106
** https://web.archive.org/web/20200627190104/https://twitter.com/opengl106 apology post
** 4k followers on Twitter a the time, but small GitHub, so any other external fame source?

Media coverage:

* https://tw.news.yahoo.com/陸生罵-支那廢物-事後歉-辜負祖國-155037705.html
** says they are a student from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences[UCAS] studying abroad, claims family name is 季 and male, Twitter says they are <<gay-rights,non-binary/pansexual>>
* https://www.dwnews.com/中国/60201684/疑有学生在海外发辱华言论中国科学院大学发紧急声明图 contains real photos taken from some public account, appearing dressed as female
** the university UCAS issued a statement on this saying that would be punished
* <<global-times>> accused them of "reviling the victims of the Nanjing Massacre" https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192875.shtml true or false?

Reactions:

* https://www.pincong.rocks/article/20899 <<pincong>> "洁洁良第二？疑似中科院大学学生因推特发表「不当言论」被校方关切", commentary compares the case <<tian-jialiang>>
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/403769563 "如何评价中国科学院大学硕士生季子越在社交媒体发表恨国精日言论？" on <<zhihu>>

[[tian-jialiang]]
===== Tian Jialiang (田佳良, 2018)

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/田佳良事件

Alias: 洁洁良

=== Hong Kong dissidents

Related: <<hong-kong>>.

[[joshua-wong]]
==== Joshua Wong (黄之锋)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Wong
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黃之鋒

Social media:

* https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf

News coverage:

* 2020-09-24 arrested: https://hongkongfp.com/2020/09/24/breaking-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-arrested-on-suspicion-of-participating-in-an-unauthorised-assembly/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMl1jDjptDk Lessons in Dissent: How One Hong Kong Schoolboy Started A Revolution by Journeyman Pictures (2019)
video::kMl1jDjptDk[youtube,height=400,width=600]

[[agnes-chow]]
==== Agnes Chow (周庭)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Chow
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/周庭

Social media:

* https://twitter.com/chowtingagnes

[[jimmy-lai]]
==== Jimmy Lai (黎智英)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lai
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/黎智英

Founder of <<apple-daily>>.

=== Western dissidents

* LeLe Farley (乐乐法利): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyYlGTZL-HnnX_UcGkVFH7A

[[serpentza-laowhy86]]
==== Winston Sterzel (SerpentZA) and Matthew Tye (laowhy86)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Sterzel

The biggest China expat YouTube channels, and the also collaborated together a lot.

As of 2019, they seem to have moved to the USA because they can't stand harassment by the Chinese government.

Due to their balanced opinions, fluent Chinese, not being <<falun-gong>>, and having lived in China for such a long time, the offer what is arguably the one of best CCP criticisms.

SerpentZA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl7mAGnY4jh4Ps8rhhh8XZg

laowhy86 YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChvithwOECK5g_19TjldMKw

ADVChina joint YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNPa8fSXzzAZuT9859GVhg

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV4s9c9sfQ "How I Got my Family Out of China" published by laowhy86 on 2020-07-08.
video::kDV4s9c9sfQ[youtube,height=400,width=600]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CPqROtanA "How I Escaped From China - The Untold Story" published by laowhy86 on 2020-07-01.
video::kDV4s9c9sfQ[youtube,height=400,width=600]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDV4s9c9sfQ "#65 China Is Getting Worse | Laowhy86 and SerpentZA" published on 2020-04-05. SerpentZA and laowhy86 interview on "China Unscripted", a sister channel of <<china-uncensored>>. This marks them clearly on the side of "openly criticizing the Chinese government".
video::kDV4s9c9sfQ[youtube,height=400,width=600]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6PI91n2f9o "China Expels Foreign Press to Protect Its Lies" published on 2020-03-23 during/just after <<covid>>.
video::b6PI91n2f9o[youtube,height=400,width=600]

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpPpFzLcZg "China's Winnie The Pooh BAN Explained" published on 2019-10-28 discusses <<winnie-the-pooh>>.
video::NXpPpFzLcZg[youtube,height=400,width=600]

[[aaron-dewitt]]
==== Aaron DeWitt (The Chinese Tea)

Online presence:

* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9xhMZtll7ssDnSwFRTS_mQ
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkApnaIZFJw&list=PLvRF9X9O58vKO1GGejwzbLaKBPaW4WdTD contains a playlist he forgot to delete with his own videos, including the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOh9AoAv2U "TikTok Hired me" URL and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M "I worked for the Chinese State Department – 中公教育党委 – offcn CCP Committee"
* https://thechineset.com his online shop with anti-CCP memorabilia
* https://www.facebook.com/gayshuaige
** https://www.facebook.com/TheBritishHongKong/posts/httpsyoutubekfoh9aoav2u/10157024077436792/ links to
* https://www.reddit.com/user/dontlikegina is likely his account, as it is basically about him self advertising, and coherent with him likely being gay based on appearance in videos
** https://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottChina/comments/j6iahm/naming_the_racist_companies_that_dont_hire_black/ by dontlikegina points to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGG "Naming the Racist Companies that Don't Hire Black People", see below
* https://www.instagram.com/letsdewitt/

Deleted some of his videos, so likely either legal or intelligence trouble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M "I worked for the Chinese State Department – 中公教育党委 – offcn CCP Committee" (2020-08-21), previously titled "Working for the Chinese State Department" is the most eyepopping video based on its description from http://web.archive.org/web/20201102122911if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3hwdsbh6-M&feature=youtu.be[archive] (video not visible, only description, likely CIA deletion request):

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Interviewing potential spies for for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, on behalf of 中公教育 (offcn) - a $30B+ company, funded and managed by the Chinese Communist Party. I worked there from 2019 to 2020. I have lived in China from 2014 - 2020, speak Mandarin Chinese, and am now blacklisted by the Chinese government - a badge of honor.
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so holy fuck, Ciro actually feels this one could honestly be a <<spy,CIA deletion request>>.

offcn is the short name for the company 中公教育党委 which literally means "Chinese Public Education Party". TODO what do they do exactly? They seem to have strong CCP party links: http://edu.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0510/c1006-29977260.html[], maybe they are a "corporate training" company for the CCP itself.

Discussions threads:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/ie85jr/i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department_中公教育党委/ claims to be a self post which was later deleted "(I own this video, Taiwan is mentioned multiple times)"
* https://sirmax1.wordpress.com/2020/08/22/i-worked-for-the-chinese-state-department-中公教育党委-offcn-ccp-committee-via-r-wikileaks/
* https://www.reddit.com/r/LIHKG/comments/ies9jh/i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department_中公教育党委/ on ther <<reddit>> <<lihkg>> backup
* https://www.reddit.com/r/saraba2nd/comments/ieiq7m/外国人爆料i_worked_for_the_chinese_state_department/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFOh9AoAv2U "TikTok Hired Me in China: Exposing their Lies, Insider Leaks" is not archived at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGGunRxc "Naming the Racist Companies that Don't Hire Black People". According to https://web.archive.org/web/20201007015433if_/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6uFGGunRxc&feature=youtu.be (viewable 2020-12-31) the original title was "Spilling the Chinese Tea" and the description is:

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Discussing companies that operate in America and refuse to hire black people. These companies avoid following U.S. EEO laws because they're headquartered in mainland China, a country that does not protect people of color from racial discrimination.
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The video shows a call with a black man (TODO who is that) where he talks about anti-black racism on employment in China. Nothing eye-popping, mostly references <<don-t-hire-blacks>>. Mentions he is under NDA and cannot reveal the name of the company.

== Media (媒体)

Sources of information pertinent to this repository.

In other sections:

* <<russian-state-media>>

=== Commentary media

The following offer interesting commentary, but not to be used as primary sources:

* https://china-journal.org
* https://www.chinafile.com Some good articles. "ChinaFile is an online magazine published by the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society", based in New York.
* https://www.iyouport.org/

[[biased-media]]
=== Biased media (偏见媒体)

I consider the media in this section biased, and never cite it for fact-checking.

[[chinese-government-media]]
==== Chinese government media (中国政府媒体)

* Phoenix TV
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Television
** https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/凤凰卫视
** https://freebeacon.com/national-security/cruz-seeks-to-shut-down-chinese-propaganda-station-phoenix-tv/

[[xinhua]]
==== Xinhua News Agency (新华社, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新华社

Links:

* http://www.xinhuanet.com/
* https://twitter.com/PDChina
* https://www.youtube.com/user/ChinaViewTV "New China TV"

[[internal-media-of-china]]
===== Internal media of China (内参)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_media_of_China
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/内参

At https://youtu.be/846AtqraCYg?t=615 the BBC mini-documentary series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Get_You_Out_of_My_Head_(TV_series)[Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)] Episode 04 "But What If the People are Stupid" comments that Xinhua had 3 levels of priviledged real news for people higher and higher up in the party hierarchy, and that the top one had extra large letters so that the old men who were in that category could read it.

The name for this top document is the "Big Reference" (大参考), since the 70s down to today in the 2020s.

TODO: there must be websites hosting some level of those, right?

[[cctv]]
===== China Central Television (CCTV, 中国中央电视台, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Central_Television
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国中央电视台

Reports:

* 2011 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12321492 "China TV 'substitutes Top Gun for air force footage'"

[[cgtn]]
====== China Global Television Network (CGTN, 中国环球电视网, CCP media)

* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgrNz-aDmcr2uuto8_DL2jg
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国环球电视网

<<cctv>>'s international branch in English, China's <<voa>>.

* 20201-02-04: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/04/media/cgtn-uk-license-ofcom/index.html lost UK license

[[peoples-daily]]
===== People's Daily (人民日报, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Daily
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/人民日报

Website: http://people.cn/

The website has per-language and per province subdomains, e.g.:

* http://en.people.cn/
* Province subdomains
** http://js.people.cn/ Jiangsu
* http://fj.people.cn/ Fujian
* https://twitter.com/PDChina

As of 2020, some deleted articles show the home page instead of the article, without redirection. Some examples can be seen at: <<hao-haidong>>.

But older pages just show 404.

[[global-times]]
===== Global Times (环球时报, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/环球时报

Accounts:

* https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews https://archive.is/7oshu
* https://www.facebook.com/globaltimesnews/

[[china-daily]]
===== China Daily (中国日报, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Daily
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国日报

English-language propaganda newspaper.

Responsible for <<china-watch>>.

[[china-radio-international]]
===== China Radio International (CRI, 中国国际广播电台, CCP media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Radio_International
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国国际广播电台

Websites:

* http://www.cri.cn
* http://english.cri.cn/

Operates for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCRW which is mentioned at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46557096 from <<spy>>. WTF, you have to obviously block them!

[[pro-chinese-government-media]]
===== Pro-Chinese government media (pro-CCP media)

These might be independent, but they are clearly pro CCP and thus cannot be trusted:

* https://kknews.cc/ refers to <<falun-gong>> as an "Evil Cult" (邪教) https://kknews.cc/zh-mo/entertainment/lj4y9yb.html (http://archive.is/osBDv[archive])
* http://facts.org.cn/ anti-religion website in English, basically an English <<kaiwind>>

[[guancha]]
====== Guancha News (观察者网)

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/观察者网

Website: https://www.guancha.cn/

YouTube channel, mostly Chinese commentary videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJncdiH3BQUBgCroBmhsUhQ

Ideology:

* anti-<<falun-gong>>: https://www.guancha.cn/politics/2019_09_18_518339.shtml

[[kaiwind]]
====== Kaiwind (pro-CCP media)

http://kaiwind.com/

Anti-religion, and notably, anti-<<falun-gong>> website in Chinese.

It must be said however that they do contain at least some information that seems to be true/interesting.

Including open secrets that every Falun Gong believer knows about but does discuss much publicly, e.g. details of <<li-hongzhis-family>>, and Sun Senjun's account.

Ciro has no proof that this is linked to the government, but it is very likely, even the Chinese embassy website links to it:

* http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/lj/t36322.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20180414233331/http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/lj/t36322.htm

[[falun-gong-media]]
==== Falun Gong media (法轮功媒体)

A great example of how <<falun-gong>> is <<flg-organized,highly organized>>.

Likely highly de-facto controlled by <<li-hongzhi>>, and extremely <<flg-transparent,lacking clear full disclosure of their affiliation>>.

For example, Li refers to Falun Gong media as "our media" in <<flg-canon>>, e.g.: https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/20090606L.html[].

It could be argued that those media are not "directly" controlled by Li Hongzhi, and Ciro does believe that they were created independently of him initially.

But without doubt they are controlled by his devout followers, and if Li Hongzhi ever gave directions, which Ciro has no proof he has ever done, then those media would follow.

Ciro believes without evidence that Li Hongzhi gives specific directives to the top tenants of those organizations from time to time when important issues arise. Ciro believes that one of such issues is the support of Donald Trump: <<flg-trump>>.

Furthermore, Li appears to directly cite some of the main media in Canon or talk at their conferences as Canon.

One thing must be said in their favour however: they are incorruptible in their fight against the CCP.

Bibliography:

* https://medium.com/@Ben_D_Hurley/the-agenda-that-drives-falun-gongs-media-organisations-62201ddeff66[]: Ben Hurley's 2019 overview, notably hitting on <<flg-transparent, transparency issues>>

List of smaller ones that didn't deserve a section:

* https://www.secretchina.com/
* https://fofg.org/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_Hope
** https://www.soundofhope.org/
** https://www.bayvoice.net/gb/
* http://lotus-sacre.com/
* http://dongtaiwang.com
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freegate
* https://hongzhi.li/ nice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack[domain hack]
* https://www.qi-gong.me/
* http://www.zhengjian.org/
* https://www.huaglad.com/ 澳洲新闻 Australian news website, links to <<epoch-times>> on footer: https://web.archive.org/web/20201101122433/https://www.huaglad.com/
* https://visiontimes.com/ Vison Times, Vision China Times, 看中国
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_China_Times
** https://www.visiontimes.com.au/
** https://www.secretchina.com/

[[epoch-times]]
===== The Epoch Times (明慧网, Falun Gong media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/大纪元时报

Falun Gong's newspaper with news for "general public consumption" an no clear affiliation indication.

In <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa10_3.htm or https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/lectures/20091017L.html "Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting" from 2009-10-17:

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There are so many things you have to do. You have to do your ordinary job and do it well, you have to manage your family's affairs, and as Dafa disciples you need to make time for Fa-study and exercises; you also need to clarify the truth, as well as participate in Dafa projects, such as The Epoch Times.
____

In 2020-11-08 https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/11/8/n12534746.htm the Epoch Times published a poem by Li Hongzhi, just after Trump was announced to lose the presidential elections, see also:  <<flg-trump>>.

Related:

* https://www.epochweekly.com/

[[ntdtv]]
===== New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD, NTDTV, 新唐人電視台, Falun Gong media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Tang_Dynasty_Television
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新唐人電視台

Falun Gong's newspaper with news for "general public consumption" an no clear affiliation indication.

Li speaking to New Tang conference in <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://big5.falundafa.org/chibig5/jiangfa9_3.htm 在新唐人電視討論會上的講法 or https://falundafa.org/eng/eng/jjyz3_73.htm "Fa Teaching Given at the NTDTV Meeting" from 2009-06-06:

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Things are changing rapidly as the Fa-rectification forges ahead and as Dafa disciples' righteous thoughts grow stronger. The energy emitted by NTDTV is very strong
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"Fa-rectification", amazing jargon, see also "Cult-speak" from <<orange-papers>>.

Related shows:

* https://www.youtube.com/user/Laowaikanzhongguo Laowai kan Zhongguo 老外看中國
* https://www.youtube.com/user/NTDOffTheGreatWall Off the Great Wall
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVWMVBg1RPrDlakdmbyTKBA Zooming In with Simone Gao
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3HxxpOJ0WWIuZsb7FtSLWQ The BL (The Beauty of Life) No clear indication, but obvious since intro video shows Falun Gong images.
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYSHqbSBDD0X3NC-ze8z5xQ 中國禁聞 (Chinese Forbidden News). Nice name, a play of words on "新闻" (xinwen vs jinwen)

[[china-uncensored]]
====== China Uncensored (pro-Falun Gong media)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFP46yVT-GG4o1TgXn-04Q

Hosted by Chris Chappell.

Syster interview podcast channel: China Unscripted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o1sZefER0E The three makers of China Uncesored appear on the videos.

Older shows had an "ndt.tv" water mark on top right, e.g. a 2013 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmMvS3lgJBs

The video description also links to http://e.ntd.tv/NTDChinaUncensored which is now down, but has archives such as https://web.archive.org/web/20130321071835/http://e.ntd.tv/NTDChinaUncensored which suggest a redirect back to the YouTube channel:

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Redirecting to...

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZZhVHPaO1ziCc9dRPrgbz2KU0aZF7CJ-
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TODO why did newer videos remove the water mark and clear link? Did they break links, or just to hide Falun Gong influence?

Home page gives extremely unusual importance to Falun Gong resources, e.g.:

* http://www.chinauncensored.tv/about/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20190426203719/http://www.chinauncensored.tv/about/[archive]) "China Uncensored is available to watch on this website, on YouTube, on New Tang Dynasty Television"
* http://www.chinauncensored.tv/campaigns/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20190512160736/http://www.chinauncensored.tv/campaigns/[archive]) "Chinese police illegally arrested Canadian citizen Sun Qian from her home in Beijing for practicing Falun Gong."

Website credits as of 2020:

* Host Chris Chappell
* Producer Matt Gnaizda: his LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-gnaizda-6598a75/ has a gap from 2009 to 2017, after having graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and worked "regular" jobs. This gap could have been when he converted to Falun Gong and started working for Falun Gong media
** https://twitter.com/mattgnaizda
** https://www.theepochtimes.com/author-matt-gnaizda <<epoch-times>> credits him with several articles between 2005 and 2014
* Humor Ninja Shelley Zhang. She appears  appears to be a professional comedy writer:
** https://twitter.com/shelzhang
** https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelley-zhang-a5741a56/
** https://thechinagirls.wordpress.com/

Related:

* https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-YouTube-show-China-Uncensored-funded/answer/Ciro-Santilli
* https://www.quora.com/Is-the-YouTube-channel-China-Uncensored-a-trustworthy-source-of-information-on-China
* https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-scraped-most-popular-channel-on-china-politics-from-search-suggestions_2675796.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20190119083517/https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-scraped-most-popular-channel-on-china-politics-from-search-suggestions_2675796.html[archive]) <<epoch-times>> highlights the channel "Why YouTube's Most Popular Channel on China Politics Doesn't Show in Search Suggestions"

[[minghui]]
===== Minghui (明慧网, Falun Gong media)

https://en.minghui.org/

Falun Gong's primary "social network"/"Falun Gong"-only news/propaganda website. More Falun Gong specific than <<epoch-times>>.

Literally: clear (明) wisdom (慧) network (网)

Li speaking to Minghui conference in <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://big5.falundafa.org/chibig5/jiangfa10_1.htm

TODO how https://www.clearwisdom.net/ compares?

[[shen-yun]]
===== Shen Yun Performing Arts (神韵艺术团, Falun Gong media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Yun_Performing_Arts
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/神韵艺术团

A good testimony from an ordinary employee from 2013: <<aarvoll-shenyun,Aarvoll's account>>.

Openly directly controlled by <<li-hongzhi>>. He features as director on librettos, e.g. the 2013 one (credited "D. F." (Da Fa) and with his photo).

Shen Yun's headquarters are also located in/near <<dragon-springs>>.

Li mentions Shen Yun in <<flg-canon,canon>>: https://gb.falundafa.org/chigb/jiangfa11_2.htm

On thing Ciro couldn't help but notice is that the "CCP guards beating up Falun Gong people" scenes felt a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_opera[Revolutinary operas] of the <<mao-zedong>> period in their aesthetics. Maybe this is an intentional reference.

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQ8plzWl9g "They tried to get me to post Chinese propaganda" by J.J. McCullough (2019) talks about Shen Yun and Falun Gong in general, and how he was offered to post anti-Shen Yun propaganda for 500 dollars.
video::2mQ8plzWl9g[youtube,height=400,width=600]

[[jennifer-zeng]]
===== Jennifer Zeng (曾錚, pro-Falun Gong media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Zeng

https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd

2005 book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Witnessing-History-Womans-Fight-Freedom/dp/1741144000

[[bannedbook]]
===== bannedbook.org (禁闻网, pro-Falun Gong media)

The main Chinese name is 禁闻网 which stands for "banned news network", and is more accurate than the domain name "bannedbook" since the majority of material published appears to be recent banned articles.

Classifying this as Falun Gong media because most or possibly all of the sidebar recommended websites 推荐网站 are also Falun Gong media e.g. as of 2020-04: https://web.archive.org/web/20200427221744/https://www.bannedbook.org/[] includes <<epoch-times>> and https://hongzhi.li/[], so yeah, not much doubt.

From this we deduce that the "banned book" in the domain name originally likely referred more specifically to the banned Falun Gong sacred books: <<flg-canon>>.

Once again, <<flg-transparent>> is in need.

TODO who is behind this website? They store full text copies of banned articles, e.g. https://www.bannedbook.org/bnews/baitai/20190816/1175647.html is a full text copy of http://yashalong.blog.caixin.com/archives/188877 which is mentioned at: <<nazi>>.

[[tuidang]]
===== Tuidang movement (退党, Falun Gong media)

* https://tuidang.org/
* https://en.tuidang.org/

Falun Gong campaign asking Chinese people to revoke their CCP membership.

Extremelly common when <<falun-gong-preaching>> on the streets in touristic areas where Chinese tourists will be present. Fake names will be accepted, so it is obviously just a symbolic act.

A bit less than 10% of the Chinese population are registered CCP members: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party[]. So it is not obligatory, and there likely restrictions. But there must also be some kind of benefits involved. See also: https://daily.jstor.org/communist-party-of-china/

[[usa-government-media]]
==== USA government media (美国政府媒体)

** https://www.voa.com/
** https://www.voachinese.com/
** https://www.voacantonese.com/

Partial support:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxun https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博讯

[[ned]]
===== National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国国家民主基金会

[[boxun]]
====== Boxun (博讯, USA government media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxun
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/博讯

[[china-digital-times]]
====== China Digital Times (CDT, 中国数字时代, USA government media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Digital_Times
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国数字时代

<<ned>>-funded as mentioned e.g. at: https://www.ned.org/china-digital-times-provides-crucial-insight-and-information-about-china-and-the-covid-19/

They have some amazing anti-<<ccp,CCP>> content, notably:

* https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Main_Page[Grass-mud-horse Index], mentioned at: <<where-can-i-find-good-words-for-a-keyword-attack>>

A scraped mirror of CDT was created on <<github>> pages by Tang Wenzheng from <<fuck-xuexiqiangguo>> is present at:

* https://china-digital-times.github.io/?/
* https://github.com/china-digital-times/china-digital-times.github.io JavaScript SPA that reads data from the data repository, which is stored as JSON (JAMstack)
* https://github.com/china-digital-times/data/ the data

Firs commit  Jun 30, 2019. The first article is from 2010, so maybe it did scrape everything. It appears to be automatically updated daily. The images seem to be re-uploaded to https://statically.io/[], e.g. https://china-digital-times.github.io/?/id/664606 contains https://cdn.statically.io/gh/china-digital-times/files/master/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png which just fetches from GitHub automatically: https://github.com/china-digital-times/files/blob/master/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png[] while the original article https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/664606.html stores images locally: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/files/2021/04/image-1617989397104.png[]. This approach is more censorship resistant, since all images are under a single domain, so takedown would require a full statically domain takedown, which would break other things. Although CDN blocks are not unheard of, e.g. as mentioned at: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/267715/is-stack-overflow-accessible-in-china[].

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx28EUiKEUc "From 'fart people' to citizens on China's internet | Xiao Qiang | TEDxLiberdade" by TEDx Talks (2014). Presentation by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Qiang[Xiao Qiang] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蕭強[萧强]), founder of <<china-digital-times>>. He was a Physicist from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Science_and_Technology_of_China[USTC] who went mad after <<tiananmen>>. <<wife>> also studied there and said that's the most anti-CCP of all big Chinese universities.
video::MCxzMYVvHBg[youtube,height=400,width=600,start=227]

[[jamestown-foundation]]
===== Jamestown Foundation (USA government media)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_Foundation

==== Anti-CCP media

[[amnesty-international]]
===== Amnesty International (国际特赦组织)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/國際特赦組織

Website:

* https://www.amnesty.org/en/

[[bitter-winter]]
===== Bitter Winter (寒冬)

* https://bitterwinter.org/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESNUR

Italian-based magazine about freedom of religion.

China category: https://bitterwinter.org/category/china/news/

==== USA-based media bias

2018 graph that everyone needs to see: https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2018/02/28/Photos/NS/MW-GE557_MediaB_20180228115701_NS.jpg

[[voa]]
===== Voice of america (VOA, 美国之音, USA government media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/美国之音

[[rfa]]
===== Radio Free Asia (RFA) (自由亚洲电台, USA government media)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/自由亚洲电台

Website: https://www.rfa.org

Just because they are/were funded/founded by the CIA, it doesn't mean that we can't use their xref:rebel-pepper[amazing satirical cartoons] to fight xref:dictatorship[], right?

[[hong-kong-media]]
=== Hong kong media (香港媒体)

[[scmp]]
==== South China Morning Post (南华早报)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/南華早報

<<hong-kong>> based, but bought by <<alibaba>> in 2016, but it still continued to publish censored stuff widely, e.g.:

* <<hao-haidong>>

[[apple-daily]]
==== Apple Daily (蘋果日報)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Daily
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/蘋果日報_(香港)

Website: https://hk.appledaily.com/

Founded by <<jimmy-lai>>.

Pro-democracy. Raided soon after <<hong-kong-national-security-law>> started.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf-qyxEIuHI Hong Kong billionaire's last interview as a free man by BBC News (2021)

[[hkfp]]
==== Hong Kong Free Press

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Free_Press
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/香港自由新聞

Website: https://hongkongfp.com/

=== Media that we are not sure is biased or not

[[caixin]]
==== Caixin (财新传媒)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caixin
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/财新传媒

Beijing based, but does publish stuff that seems to be very sensitive:

* <<covid>> Government fuckups
* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35761277 "China magazine Caixin defiant on censorship of article"

[[videos]]
== Videos (视频)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcZOZrP1P_V5d7RMOKXF1PT70fcfYJpgY[]: <<ciro-santilli>>'s "China Politics" playlist. It is a collection of all sensitive videos he has ever found on YouTube. Ping him if you find any he hasn't included.

Interesting videos that were deleted/made private since he added them:

* 2019-04-17 https://web.archive.org/web/20190424021220/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnnHCeRH3w the Leica ad: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/19/18508009/leica-china-censored-ad-tiananmen-square-protests-weibo Re-upload by <<scmp>>: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcuLZDHLFt8
* 2019-05-18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAEUafI_lyI not on Web Archive, lesson learned

[[funny]]
== Funny (搞笑)

Humour is the greatest weapon against <<dictatorship,dictators>>:

* <<xi-jinping>>
** <<chrysanthemium-xi-jinping>>
** <<winnie-the-pooh>>
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Religious_Affairs_Bureau_Order_No._5 officially named "Measures on the Management of the Reincarnation of Living Buddhas" (藏传佛教活佛转世管理办法)
* https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/3pqljx/zimbabwes_ruthless_dictator_mugabe_wins_chinas/ 2015 Zimbabwe dictator wins Confucius prize
* http://www.miniharm.com/
* South Park S32 E1 "Band in China" (2019), episode criticizing <<censorship,Chinese censorship>>
** free preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6DI6XuvCwE
** free episode but only for US / Canada... https://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s23e02-band-in-china
** reply from show creators to censorship https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/1181273539799736320
** BBC's report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-49968867
* https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGPZYFeUUAAYMQf?format=jpg&name=large "Tibet, Uyghur, Hong Kong, World" China death knocking door cartoon. TODO source, originally seen at: https://twitter.com/Lawrence_HKer/status/1181026542786203648 (https://web.archive.org/web/20191008075035/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGPZYFeUUAAYMQf?format=jpg[archive])

See also:

* <<life-of-brian-1979>>
* <<zone-theory>>
* <<weibo-logo>>

[[cartoonists]]
=== Cartoonists (漫画家)

Reasonable lists:

* https://caglecartoons.com/?s=China The website blocks Web Archive.

Other cartoonists/illustrators:

* Greta Samuel
** https://gretasamuel.com/
** https://mobile.twitter.com/samuel_greta
** https://idzpodprad.pl/aktualnosci/chinczycy-groza-smiercia-polskiej-ilustratorce-pracodawca-chce-ja-zwolnic/ "Chińczycy grożą śmiercią polskiej ilustratorce! Pracodawca chce ją zwolnić?¨" Google translates to: "The Chinese are threatening the death of the Polish illustrator! Employer wants to fire her?"

[[rebel-pepper]]
==== Rebel Pepper (变态辣椒, RFA employee)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Pepper
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/王立銘

Real name: Wang Liming (王立铭)

Personal media:

* https://twitter.com/remonwangxt
* https://rebelpeppercartoons.com/

Without a doubt, the greatest anti-Communist joke cartoonist of the 2010s.

As of 2019 he does work for <<rfa>>, so a possible list of all cartoons of this era can be found at: https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/story_archive

His best work can be found scattered throughout this document in the relevant sections.

.Rebel Pepper's self portrait as a perverted pepper (the literal translation of his Chinese name "变态辣椒") used in his Sina and <<tencent>> accounts before those got deleted https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china_watch/2014/08/140827_china_cartoonist[according to the BBC]. https://ecdm.fandom.com/zh/wiki/变态辣椒[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Rebel_pepper.jpg[height=400]

==== Paresh Nath

Not China only like <<rebel-pepper>>, but does have some good China ones.

* https://www.cagle.com/author/paresh-nath/
** https://www.cagle.com/paresh-nath/2018/01/china-s-manipulation "We don't seek to conquer foreign lands", "It seeks to conquer foreign minds!"
** https://media.cagle.com/78/2017/03/08/192621_600.jpg "We believe in free trade and reforms"
** https://www.cagle.com/paresh-nath/2014/10/honk-kong-protests "Communism", "Democracy" and "Hong Kong" illustrates democracies disadvantage, that it is hard to get everyone on the same boat to fight together compared to dictatorships. This was also seen clearly on WW2 when the British government hesitated for a long time to attack while seeking peace, until Churchill stepped up.
* https://twitter.com/pareshnathtoons?lang=en
* https://www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/dessinateurs/paresh/

[[badiucao]]
==== Baidiucao (巴丢草)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badiucao
* https://twitter.com/badiucao

Has a more artistic red-black-white-yellow style.

[[matsuyama-miyabi]]
==== Matsuyama Miyabi (松山雅)

Does he have anything besides the sexy BDSM gag ball 和諧/阿中哥哥 girl from February 2020 <<covid,COVID19>> time?

* https://www.reddit.com/r/translator/comments/f08s9o/unknown_english_can_anyone_translate_the_words_on/
* https://supchina.com/2020/02/14/a-third-of-china-remains-on-at-least-partial-lockdown-from-covid-19/

===== Wumao artists

[[wuheqilin]]
====== Wuheqilin (乌合麒麟, wumao photographer)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuheqilin
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/乌合麒麟

Publishes as public domain, so the images can be uploaded to Wikipedia. That's something that <<rebel-pepper>> and the <<rfa>> could learn from.

Featured on <<chinese-government-media>> e.g. at:

* https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1219588.shtml by <<global-times>>

[[falun-sweden]]
=== Falun, Sweden 法轮，瑞典

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/法倫

A Swedish University town called "Falun", with the same "Falun" Chinese characters as those in <<falun-gong>>, which got the town blocked by the <<internal-censorship,GFW>> on some websites, mentioned at:

* https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323926104578277511385052752
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=法倫&oldid=47709870#趣闻

Known primarily for its mine, which was one of the oldest operating companies in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Mine

[[art]]
== Art (艺术)

* https://www.yuumeiart.com/fisheye-placebo-chapters Fisheye Placebo by Wenqing Yan. Webcomic that talks a lot about climbing the xref:censorship[great wall]. Artist obviously pro-democracy: https://twitter.com/Yuumei_Art/status/1174394851179167744

=== Dictatorships are bad for the arts

Ermm, fear of going to jail for not kissing up to dictators well enough? Part of <<censorship>>.

.https://youtu.be/MCxzMYVvHBg?t=227 Shostakovich - How to Compose Music Despite [ R E D A C T E D ] by Tantacrul (2019) highlights how the famous Russian composer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich[Dimitri Shostakovich] had to continually work around the <<russia,Soviet Union>>'s censorship in his compositions.
video::MCxzMYVvHBg[youtube,height=400,width=600,start=227]

[[porn]]
==== Pornography ban (色情禁令)

This will be the fall of China:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_China
* https://www.quora.com/Why-is-pornography-banned-in-China

And yet, every single Chinese teenager knows very well the meaning of "AV": Adult Video, the term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_adult_videos_in_Japan[originating notably from Japan] (the Chinese really), which is one of the most common ways of referring to vide pornography.

Curious, right?

The <<nineteen-eighty-four>> quote "The sex instinct will be eradicated." comes to mind, see that section for fuller context.

Some news coverage:

* 2020 during <<covid>>, while https://www.pornhub.com/press/show?id=1951[Pornhub was offering free premium subscriptions], China was cracking down on porn harder than usual
** https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/06/internet-sex-coronavirus-no-porn-for-chinese-stuck-under-virus-lockdown/ FP report
** (<<chinese-government-media,biased>>) http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/25/c_138657340.htm "China intensifies crackdown on pornography, illegal publications"
* 2018-01-15 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42640569 "Sora Aoi: Japan's porn star who taught a Chinese generation about sex. When Japanese actress and former porn star Sora Aoi announced her marriage online, it set off a frenzy on Chinese social media."
* 2017-06-17 https://qz.com/1001366/how-the-chinese-watch-porn-on-chinas-censored-internet/ "Watching porn on China's censored internet is an infinitely evolving cat-and-mouse game"

[[jin-ping-mei]]
.Ming-era dynasty illustration of a scene from the novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Ping_Mei[Jin Ping Mei] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/金瓶梅[金瓶梅]) where Qing Ximen (西門) and Golden Lotus (潘金蓮) are engaging in foreplay in a <<yuyuan-garden,beautiful ancient Chinese house>>. For an old depiction of homosexual male sexual activity, see: <<qing-gay-scroll,this image>>. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:金瓶梅格子门插图2.JPG[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Jin_ping_mei.jpg[height=600]

[[tattoo]]
==== Tattoo television ban 刺青电视禁令 (2018)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustrick/2018/03/27/china-just-banned-tattoos-on-its-soccer-players-and-it-could-cost-them/#1ff82fa07db2 notably shows soccer players covering up their tattoos. <<hao-haidong>> must have loved this!

And more generally, anything "cringey" was also banned from television in 2018-2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/business/china-war-on-fun-earrings-tattoos.html[]:

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Men's earrings aren't the only objectionable material that China's censors are blurring, covering up or cutting out. Soccer players wear long sleeves to cover their tattoos. Women in costumes at a racy video game convention have been told to raise their necklines. Rappers can rhyme only about peace and harmony.
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No wonder that China basically unable to produce a lot of worthwhile art with such restrictions.

* 2018-03 https://supchina.com/2018/03/29/no-tattoos-at-the-2018-strawberry-music-festival-in-hangzhou/ Funny pics at: https://app.myzaker.com/news/article.php?f=xiongzhang&pk=5ac0eb1877ac6465da676481
* 2018-01 https://time.com/5112061/china-hip-hop-ban-tattoos-television/

===== Live streaming

Fun is forbidden in China, all people must be good <<xi-jinping>> loving <<ccp-cult,Zealots>>, or else:

* 2019-04-15 http://chinafilminsider.com/the-stars-who-vanished-from-chinas-live-streaming-galaxy/ "The Stars Who Vanished from China's Live-streaming Galaxy" talks about the fall of:
** Li Tianyou: "Li Tianyou's downfall was deeply embedded in his rap lyrics and the lifestyle that he promotes in his shows. Several of his now-banned songs praised methamphetamine, calling the illicit drug "wonderful" and capable of "erasing all worries" (our translation), and describing in detail the sensation of being high on meth. Li's livestreams also featured extravagant displays of wealth, including stacks of cash, luxury watches, and expensive sports cars."
** Lu Benwei (卢本伟, alias 55kai): "As for Lu Benwei, profanity eventually became his undoing. After being accused of using cheats when live-streaming a game in November 2017, Lu vehemently defended himself on his channel, insulting the content creator who made the accusation and instigating fans to verbally abuse him."
** Chen Yifa: "offense stemmed from a single live-streaming session in 2016. According to a widely circulated video, Chen made joking mention of historical events such as the Nanjing Massacre and Japan's occupation of northeast China. She also described a game character's movement as honoring the Yasukuni"
** Yang Kaili (楊凱莉, alias 莉哥): "Yang Kaili, or "Lige," was the only one of the four banned live-streamers to have broken the law. During a live-streaming show on Huya in October 2018, Yang was seen singing China's national anthem, "March of the Volunteers," in a jovial tone while waving her arms like an orchestra conductor", so basically 
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2018 coverage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-45859650
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https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/杨凯莉
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Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LKONlosqFM It was just a very small section, as part of the stream opening.

[[flag-desecration]]
====== Flag desecration (亵渎旗帜)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_desecration
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/褻瀆旗幟

Fuck countries, long live humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlKbg-1_7Bk "Chinese National Anthem" (2017) This crazy dud plays several tunes on trumpet on one hand, while using a handgun for the beat on the other hand.

[[books]]
== Books (书籍)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_China
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国出版物审查制度

Either banned, or relevant.

For other censored material types, see: <<lists-of-material-censored-in-china>>.

[[nineteen-eighty-four]]
=== Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (AKA "1984") 乔治·奥威尔 一九八四 (1949)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/一九八四

Read for free from Project Gutenberg:

* http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20200109210711/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html[archive])
* http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt (https://web.archive.org/web/20200413105623/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt[archive])
* https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxDAqt617IxNRkpfOXpXcmtmdjA/edit (http://web.archive.org/web/20200715084328/https://doc-0c-a0-apps-viewer.googleusercontent.com/viewer/secure/pdf/3nb9bdfcv3e2h2k1cmql0ee9cvc5lole/jo8piqd0g6c4k97rk020d06ubd0uk3r6/1594802550000/drive/%2A/ACFrOgACt_p0vdGu83jon_QtAZsTfO86kyCbwfwH6Az3aMe9tdepGK8RBSxiPA8HGVE1G-rjR0g_CtLQrXmabzqPVW-19nZOxF05Uk6jMf-cyi7vBR2EflQV_y2mdESkWbJ-FiMJURaye4TrSHB5?print=true[archive]) Chinese translation, text says by <<programthink>>. It also has some images added (many from the John Hurt mentioned below), which is cool.
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Programthink also has a literary critique article about it: https://program-think.blogspot.com/2009/06/book-review-1984.html "书评：《一九八四》——反乌托邦的代表作" (Book commentary: "1984". A representative work about dystopia.) by <<programthink>>

This book is very fun to read, and it is not very long.

1984 has coined some amazing terms which perfectly describe aspects of dictatorships:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime[Thourhgcrime], see also: <<thoughtcrime>>
* <<newspeak>>

Quotes present in other sections:

* <<nineteen-eighty-four-war-is-peace>>

In Part Three, Chapter 3, O'Brien explains the end goal of their evil government system to Winston:

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In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy--everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always--do not forget this, Winston--always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever.'
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On Part Two, Chapter 5, Winston explains the <<censorship,erasing of the past>> to Julia:

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Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don't know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories.
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See also:

* <<censorship-of-images-in-the-soviet-union>>
* <<baidu-baike-censorship-of-hao-haidong>>

With the advent of the Internet and <<wayback-machine>>, this has become a bit harder though :-)

There is also a decent movie made released in the year, you guessed, 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(1984_film) starring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hurt[John Hurt].

On Part Three, Chapter 4, The Law of Gravity quote perfectly illustrates the CCPs approach to lying:

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Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. 'If I wished,' O'Brien had said, 'I could float off this floor like a soap bubble.' Winston worked it out. 'If he THINKS he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously THINK I see him do it, then the thing happens.' Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.' He pushed the thought under instantly. The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a 'real' world where 'real' things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.
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.https://youtube.com/watch?v=flhggnpCeHw Gravity scene from the 1984 movie.
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Related:

* https://ibisbill.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/nineteen-eighty-four-in-chinese/ asks how much George Orwell thought about China at the time

==== Newspeak

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/新語_(一九八四)