MCLC: China Digital Times (Feb. 21)

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From: Anne Henochowicz <anne at chinadigitaltimes.net>
Subject: China Digital Times (Feb. 21)
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Source: China Digital Times:
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2014/02/week-cdt-february-21-2014/

This Week on China Digital Times, February 21, 2014

Censorship instructions, or "Directives from the Ministry of Truth" advise
media outlets on their coverage of sensitive news stories. For Obama's
meeting with the Dalai Lama, "only Xinhua and national media copy may be
used," all websites were advised to delete a Tencent article about
tensions in Hong Kong, Mainland relations, also unacceptable, a story
about Zhejiang secretary and "Western hostile forces." Finally, an article
about financial services firm, UBS setting up an offshore company. for the
wife and daughter of disgraced former Ministry of Railways, Zhang Shuguang
was ordered removed.

For coverage of what is being said on the Chinese Internet, see Netizen
Voices. This week it's reaction to the Weibo posts of Global Times chief
editor, Hu Xijin.

In this week's River Crabbed, CDT republishes a censored Weibo post by one
user who finds Xi Jinping's fruitful corruption probes  unsurprising.

And finally this week's Word of the Week: Godfather 干爹 (gāndiē), is about
more than just the unsavory details of a moneyed class of men playing
sugar daddy to young women:

The dependence on connections has become an increasingly pervasive part of
modern Chinese culture. While children of the rich and powerful  “compare
fathers”, it is also said that some women “compare godfathers,” relying on
these connections to obtain money, professional opportunities, and
preferential treatment.

Xiao Qiang
China Digital Times
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