MCLC: China Digital Times, Aug. 15

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From: Anne Henochowicz <anne at chinadigitaltimes.net>
Subject: China Digital Times, Aug. 15
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This Week on China Digital Times, August 15, 2014
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2014/08/week-cdt-august-15-2014/

A government directive, leaked online, restricts reporting on the removal
of crucifixes from churches in Hangzhou and Wenzhou. These Christian
symbols were dismantled from government-sanctioned churches, precipitating
followers into posting messages of outrage to social media.

The word of the week, wall-rape, is yet another example of clever netizens
using the Chinese language to encode messages while at the same time
subverting predatory online censors.

Last week, CDT posted netizen reaction to the debut of CCTV special, Deng
Xiaoping at History’s Crossroads. This week one Weibo user shared a notice
he claims to have found on a local government website, instructing cadres
to get together to watch the program.

Confucius Institutes Lose Face: Confucius Institutes, affiliated with
China’s Ministry of Education and charged with promoting Chinese culture
abroad, are facing another scandal of late.

Free at Last? CDT cartoonist depicts the recent release of human rights
lawyer, Gao Zhisheng. In the drawing, Gao is a bird (reminiscent of the
Twitter bird), leaving a small cage only to find himself trapped in a
larger cage.

This week’s sensitive words, or search terms that are blocked on Sina
Weibo, can be found here.

August 15, 2014 5:16 PM
Posted By: Meredith Godwin