China Digital Times, with its indispensable series on leaked directives from the “Ministry of Truth,” published this amazing leaked memo from China’s propaganda department yesterday: Central Propaganda Department: Urgent Notice Concerning the Southern Weekly New Year’s Message Publication Incident: Responsible Party committees and media at all levels must be clear on three points related to this matter:
We're in the second day of censorship protests outside the offices of Southern Weekly in Guangzhou. Today: leftists have come to bat for the government, young men give speeches, and Chinese media rally to Southern Weekly's cause in the only way they can.
Chengguan are like referees: the less you hear about them, the better. If this is our standard, they've made progress, since we haven't heard much from them for a while. But all good streaks come to an end, so here we go, via Global Times:
The public hospital experience can be stressful in China, we get that. You have to register -- sometimes at two different windows -- pull a number -- sometimes twice, with a downstairs attendant and again with the physician -- and wait -- sometimes a very long time. But the number of videos we see of hospital fights seems alarmingly high.
Quite the scene unfolded in Guangzhou on Saturday night, and we don't mean the Southern Weekly strike. The video from Guangzhou that everyone is watching -- more than 1.3 million views in the seven hours since it was uploaded to Youku -- is the tale of an anonymous bare-legged young lady -- dubbed "Beautiful Leg Heroine" -- who subdued a blade-wielding madwoman with one swift kick.
Alright, before you panic: according to CRI, at least one of the dead probably didn’t die due to the flu alone, as she was a 65-year-old cancer patient. The other victim was a 22-year-old migrant worker, which is a little more worrisome, but she wasn’t exactly a model of health. There’s no need to go... Read more »
