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or by downloading it locally as shown at: <<mirrors>>.
**住在中国大陆有真名用户或者用中国邮箱的网友请别给星星，不然你要被请喝茶了。先注册一个Gmail/Protonmail匿名用户才来。 Friends who live in China and have real name on account or who use a Chinese email provider, please don't star this repo, or else the police might pay you a visit some day. First create an anonymous account with Gmail/Protonmail instead.** See also: <<what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship>>.
**住在中国大陆有真名用户或者用中国邮箱的网友请别给星星，不然你要被请喝茶了。先注册一个Gmail/Protonmail匿名用户才来，最好也要用VPN/Tor/<<shadowsocks>>. Friends who live in China and have real name on account or who use a Chinese email provider, please don't star this repo, or else the police might pay you a visit some day. First create an anonymous account with Gmail/Protonmail instead, preferably from behind VPN/Tor/<<shadowsocks>>.** See also: <<what-should-pro-democracy-chinese-living-in-china-do-about-the-dictatorship>>.
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Xi_Jinping_The_Governance_of_China_photo.jpg[height=600]
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_students_sitting.jpg[height=400
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tank_Man.jpg[height=400]
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tianmen_crushed_dead.jpg[height=600]
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_crushed_dead.jpg[height=600]
**法轮功 Falun Gong 1999 70M believer religion banned**
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Pope_CCP_deal.jpeg[height=400]
https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship#gay-rights
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tianmen_lesbian_kiss.jpg[height=500]
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_lesbian_kiss.jpg[height=500]
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Addicted_bed.jpg[height=400]
@@ -162,9 +162,9 @@ image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Side_by_side_comparison_between_Thai_king
You can download the webpage locally from GitHub at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/archive/gh-pages.zip
Media such as images are not stored in this repository, but rather at https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media to keep the lightweight clone. The locally downloaded HTML will then read images from that repository. But we've learnt after creating that repository that the subdomain that serves the images is censored: <<github-censored-subdomains>>, so they might still be broken.
Media such as images are not stored in this repository, but rather at https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media to keep the lightweight clone. That downloaded HTML will read images from that repository, e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/master/Xi_Jinping_The_Governance_of_China_photo.jpg[]. But we've learnt after creating that maybe the raw.githubusercontent.com subdomain is censored: <<github-censored-subdomains>>. If anyone can confirm, we will start using another image provider by default.
You can also clone locally with Git:
Clone locally with Git using GitHub images:
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git clone https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship
@@ -173,7 +173,9 @@ git checkout gh-pages
xdg-open README.html
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or build it yourself:
Build it yourself:
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bundle install
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xdg-open README.html
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You can also build with local images:
Build with GitLab served images:
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git clone https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship
cd china-dictatorship
make MEDIA=MEDIA=https://gitlab.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship-media/-/raw/master
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Build with local images:
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git clone https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship
@@ -190,6 +200,8 @@ cd china-dictatorship
make MEDIA=../china-dictatorship-media
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or build to use GitLab images:
Given <<github-censored-subdomains>>, this might be the only way to view the images from China.
The cool thing about Git is that we can maintain several mirrors on multiple websites very easily:
@@ -1069,25 +1081,6 @@ Maybe China is saying the truth this time. Maybe the rapid Dictatorship response
<<li-hongzhi>> of course doubts those numbers :-) <<falun-gongs-view-of-epidemics>>.
Doctor Li Wenliang (李文亮) reported the virus, but was told by authorities to stay quiet, and later died from the virus, becoming somewhat of a martyr:
* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51409801
* https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2020/02/【网络民议】你能做到吗？-你听明白了吗？/ by <<china-digital-times>>
The following excerpt from his forced confession trended:
____
你能做到吗？ +
你听明白了吗？
____
Translation:
____
Can you manage? +
Do you understand?
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Good timelines so without a fucking paywall:
* https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-and-cover-up-ee65211a-afb6-4641-97b8-353718a5faab.html "Timeline: The early days of China's coronavirus outbreak and cover-up"
@@ -1126,12 +1119,41 @@ In other countries:
.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblage_(art)[Assemblage] of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirator[respirator mask] with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_(BDSM)[BDSM gag ball] attached to it, suggesting that citizen reports of COVID-19 in China have been censored. https://twitter.com/FakeNewsOfChina/status/1221396086033530880[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Covid_gag_mask.jpg[height=600]
.Selfie of Li Wenliang on his hospital bed before he died. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51409801[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Li_Wenliang_covid.jpg[height=400]
.Corona Xi mural of <<xi-jinping>> morphed into a Coronavirus by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lushsux[Lushux]. Fuller composition view: https://twitter.com/lushsux/status/1243830638966235136[]. Reddit called it https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/fqku03/winnie_the_flu/[Winnie the Flu] in a reference to <<winnie-the-pooh>>. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/fqku03/winnie_the_flu/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Covid_Xi.jpg[height=500]
[[li-wenliang]]
====== Li Wenliang (李文亮)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/李文亮
He reported <<covid,the virus>>, but was told by authorities to stay quiet, and later died from the virus, becoming somewhat of a martyr:
* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51409801
* https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/2020/02/【网络民议】你能做到吗？-你听明白了吗？/ by <<china-digital-times>>
The following excerpt from his forced confession trended:
____
你能做到吗？ +
你听明白了吗？
____
Translation:
____
Can you manage? +
Do you understand?
____
.Selfie of Li Wenliang (李文亮) on his hospital bed before he died. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51409801[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Li_Wenliang_covid.jpg[height=400]
[[li-wenliang-by-kuang-biao]]
.Caricature of Li Wenliang wearing a mask made of barbed wire by artist <<kuang-biao>>. The image https://nationalpost.com/news/world/chinese-government-censor-li-wenliang-dead-weibo-wechat-coronavirus[circulated on Weibo] for some time. https://rsf.org/en/news/coronavirus-information-heroes-china-silenced[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Li_Wenliang_COVID_barbed_wire_mark_by_Kuang_Biao.jpg[height=500]
====== nCovMemory
Popular GitHub repo documenting personal experiences and media reports:
@@ -2937,7 +2959,7 @@ image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Chinese_character_extreme.svg[height=400]
.The Sweet Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_Nobody_Got_Time_for_That[Ain't Nobody Got Time for That] meme (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sweet-brown-aint-nobody-got-time-for-that[knowyourmeme]) fits perfectly into how Ciro feels about learning Chinese characters.
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Sweet_brown_chinese_characters_meme.jpg[height=500]
.Translation of the above.
.Translation of the above by <<ciro-santilli>>: "You are immoral and uneducated", "Chinese masses", "so you're unsuited for democracy".
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Sweet_brown_chinese_characters_meme_zh.jpg[height=500]
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@@ -5978,7 +6000,7 @@ See also:
* https://www.zhihu.com/question/370080866/answer/1046195468 at <<zhihu>>
.Lesbian couple kissing in <<tiananmen,Tiananmen Square>> with Mao's painting and confused/disgusted guards in the background who are likely about to call their superiors to ask what they should do. The photo likely surfaced in 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20200301224434/https://www.salon.com/2006/01/17/lesbians_china/[as mentioned] in link:++https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(website)++[salon.com] which said it came form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing_Boing[Boing Boing]. It was not however picked up by any major website. Ciro actually thought this could have been ripped from some television series due to the amazing expression on the guards' faces. TODO: find the original Chinese source, translate the watermarks, and see if their identity is known. https://web.archive.org/web/20200301223317/http://www.chinatoday.com/entertain/tiananmen_kiss.htm[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tianmen_lesbian_kiss.jpg[height=500]
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_lesbian_kiss.jpg[height=500]
[[qing-gay-scroll]]
.<<throne,Qing dynasty>> (18th–19th c.) panel from a scroll showing two men engaging in foreplay, apparently located in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Institute[Kinsey Institute] as of 2005. For an ancient depiction of heterosexual sexual activity, see <<jin-ping-mei,this image>>. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Love_play_in_China.jpg[Source].
@@ -9277,7 +9299,7 @@ Other interesting links:
* https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/june4_poetry Chinese poetry anthology about Tiananmen collected by <<rfa>>
.Sea of protesters (广场人潮涌) in Tiananmen Square on 2019-05-04. No, not even that many people can influence dictatorships if they don't have weapons. https://abcnews.go.com/International/tiananmen-square-29th-anniversary-crackdown/story?id=55564966[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tianmen_sea.jpg[height=600]
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_sea.jpg[height=600]
[[pu-zhiqiang-shirt]]
.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_Zhiqiang[Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强)] was student demonstrator during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. His shirt reads: "Freedom of the press, freedom of association, support the 'link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Herald[World Economic Herald] (link:https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/世界经济导报[世界经济导报])', and support just journalists." (辦報自由 結社自由 聲援世经导报 支持正义记者, fully quoted https://cinacn.blogspot.com/2001/07/28.html[here]) Date: 1989-05-10. Pu remained in China as a human rights layer, and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35157525[was arrested in 2014] for attending a private meeting commemorating the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen. https://allthatsinteresting.com/tiananmen-square-massacre[Source].
@@ -9310,10 +9332,6 @@ image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Li_at_Tiananmen_Eyebeams.jpg[height=600]
.Protester covered in blood while holding an army helmet on 1989-06-04. There is also footage of that moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63&v=lXJ6gHFME0w[] which explains that the man claims his face was cut by a soldir by using the edge of the helmet. https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-06-04/1989-tiananmen-square-protests-photos[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_helmet.jpg[height=500]
[[liubukou]]
.Bodies run over by tanks by the road in after the Tiananmen Square Protests were crushed in the morning of 1989-06-05. The source website is by French journalist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Gauthier[Ursula Gauthier], who explains how those photos were taken by one of the students of the group, who later asked her to take the photos abroad to publish them. The students were some of the last to leave after the crackdown, and they were trying to escape through a small street that leads into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27an_Avenue[Chang'an Avenue] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/长安街[长安街]) when the tanks came at high speed near Liubukou crossroads (TODO Chinese name) half mile West of Tiananmen square, and not all students were able evade the tanks. https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jun/01/china.johngittings2 mentions that some bodies had to be scrapped-off the street. Ursula was later kicked out of China in 2015 after commenting that the CCP had ulterior motives for giving their condolences to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks[November 2015 Paris attacks]. Interesting fact: Ciro was actually less than 1km away from one of the Paris attacks on that night, at his home, and first learnt about what had happened when people started calling to see if he was fine. http://www.ursulagauthier.fr/tiananmen-15-minutes-dapocalypse/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tianmen_crushed_dead.jpg[height=600]
.Bodies with gun wounds at the mortuary at Shuili Hospital (水利医院, Hospital of the Ministry of Water Resources of China, https://goo.gl/maps/xAy55T3sydW8X81M6[Google maps], https://bkso.baidu.com/item/水利医院[Baidu], https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20190531/tiananmen-square-protest-photos/[New York Times Chinese report]), about 8km West of Tiananmen Square. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/world/asia/tiananmen-square-protest-photos.html[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_Shuili_Hospital_dead.jpg[height=500]
@@ -9326,8 +9344,26 @@ image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_crying_mother.webp[height=500]
.The morning after the military crackdown of the pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, workers clean their posters from bulletin boards. Resume <<censorship>> as usual. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/pictures-tiananmen-square-anniversary[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_message_board_cleanup.webp[height=500]
[[liubukou-massacre]]
===== Liubukou massacre (六部口惨案)
The source website of the photo below is by French journalist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Gauthier[Ursula Gauthier], who explains how those photos were taken by one of the students of the group, who later asked her to take the photos abroad to publish them.
The students were some of the last to leave after the crackdown, and they were trying to escape through a small street that leads into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27an_Avenue[Chang'an Avenue] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/长安街[长安街]) when the tanks came at high speed near Liubukou crossroads half mile West of Tiananmen square, and not all students were able evade the tanks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jun/01/china.johngittings2 mentions that some bodies had to be scrapped-off the street.
Ursula was later kicked out of China in 2015 after commenting that the CCP had ulterior motives for giving their condolences to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks[November 2015 Paris attacks]. Interesting fact: Ciro was actually less than 1km away from one of the Paris attacks on that night, at his home, and first learnt about what had happened when people started calling to see if he was fine.
The name of the driver of the tank that overran students was reportedly discovered in 2014 as https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吳彥輝[Wu Yanhui (吴彦辉)], who was aided by <<operation-yellowbird>>. This was based on an witness who had shouted "Remember Tank 106". The study was done by Chinese scholar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Renhua[Wu Renhua] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/吴仁华[吴仁华]).
One of the injured survivors was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Zheng[Fang Zheng] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/方政[方政]). At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHlXF9nTYJ4 方政：在六部口，坦克追杀袭击和平撤离的学生 he claims on an interview with <<voa>> that the students were peacefully evacuating.
.Bodies run over by tanks by the road near Liubukou crossroads (六部口) after the Tiananmen Square Protests were crushed in the morning of 1989-06-05. http://www.ursulagauthier.fr/tiananmen-15-minutes-dapocalypse/[Source].
image::{china-dictatorship-media-base}/Tiananmen_crushed_dead.jpg[height=600]
[[tiananmen-songs]]
===== Tiananmen Square Protests songs 六四事件歌曲
===== Tiananmen Square Protests songs (六四事件歌曲)
English:
@@ -9574,13 +9610,16 @@ Lists:
* https://qz.com/698990/261-ways-to-refer-to-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-in-china/ 261 ways to refer to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China
[[tianmen-leaders]]
===== Tianmen square protest student leaders (六四学运学生领袖)
[[tiananmen-leaders]]
===== Tiananmen square protest student leaders (六四学运学生领袖)
Lists: https://qz.com/1618805/the-1989-tiananmen-student-leaders-on-chinas-most-wanted-list/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Gang | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/劉剛_(1961年)
[[operation-yellowbird]]
====== Operation Yellowbird (黄雀行动)
[[zhou-fengsuo]]
====== Zhou Fengsuo (周锋锁)
@@ -9626,7 +9665,8 @@ Also transcripted at: http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp04.html from <<the-g
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAmL1D8R-4 Chai Ling People's Daily speech in Tiananmen Square protests (柴玲—六四学运—国民日报，胡说八道！). On <<github>>: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues/197
video::gRAmL1D8R-4[youtube,height=400,width=600]
===== Tianmen square protest documentaries
[[tiananmen-square-protest-documentaries]]
===== Tiananmen square protest documentaries (六四事件纪录片)
====== The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995)
@@ -9636,7 +9676,7 @@ video::gRAmL1D8R-4[youtube,height=400,width=600]
Chinese transcript: http://www.tsquare.tv/chinese/film/ghp00.html
[[chinese-student-demonstrations-1986]]
===== 1986 Chinese student demonstrations 八六学潮
===== 1986 Chinese student demonstrations (八六学潮)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Chinese_student_demonstrations
* https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/八六学潮
@@ -9646,7 +9686,7 @@ The prelude to <<tiananmen>>.
For example, Cui Jian (崔健) <<nothing-to-my-name,"Nothing to My Name (一無所有)">> song was composed in 1986, and later became a <<tiananmen-songs,major Tiananmen Hymn>>.
[[dissidents]]
== Dissidents 持不同政见者
== Dissidents (持不同政见者)
Related sections:
@@ -9656,12 +9696,13 @@ Related sections:
Other sections:
* <<tianmen-leaders>>
* <<tiananmen-leaders>>
* <<people-arrested-for-reporting-on-the-2019-corona-virus>>
* <<t-shirt>>
* from <<github-repositories-with-censored-information>>:
** <<terminus2049>> contributors: Chen Mei (陈玫), Cai Wei (蔡伟), Xiao Tang (小唐)
** <<fuck-xuexiqiangguo>> creator Tang Wenzheng (唐文正)
* <<cartoonists>>
Other dissidents:
@@ -10791,6 +10832,23 @@ His best work can be found scattered throughout this document in the relevant se
.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]
[[badiucao]]
==== Baidiucao (巴丢草)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badiucao
* https://twitter.com/badiucao
Has a more artistic red-black-white-yellow style.
[[kuang-biao]]
==== Kuang Biao (邝飚)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuang_Biao
Sample work:
* <<li-wenliang-by-kuang-biao,Li Wenliang with barbed wire mask>>
==== Paresh Nath
Not China only like <<rebel-pepper>>, but does have some good China ones.
@@ -10802,14 +10860,6 @@ Not China only like <<rebel-pepper>>, but does have some good China ones.
* 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)
@@ -11710,7 +11760,8 @@ Therefore, <<what-should-western-countries-do-about-china,all the West has to do
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowsocks
* https://github.com/shadowsocksrr/ on <<github>>
* https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/08/circumvention-tool-deleted-after-police-visit-developer/ by <<china-digital-times>>
* 2017 https://qz.com/1072701/meet-shadowsocks-the-underground-tool-that-chinas-coders-use-to-blast-through-the-great-firewall/ "Meet Shadowsocks, the underground tool that China’s coders use to blast through the Great Firewall"
* 2015 https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2015/08/circumvention-tool-deleted-after-police-visit-developer/ "Circumvention tool deleted after police visit developer" by <<china-digital-times>>
* https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/issues/124#issuecomment-133630294 used to contain:
+
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@@ -11722,6 +11773,7 @@ ____
TODO vs VPN:
* https://superuser.com/questions/1233614/what-is-the-difference-between-shadowsocks-and-openvpn
* https://qz.com/1072701/meet-shadowsocks-the-underground-tool-that-chinas-coders-use-to-blast-through-the-great-firewall/ mentions superficially that it is very similar, except that in the current ecosystem it is easier for tech-savvy users to setup their own servers. No technical differences are mentioned however
====== SOCKS
@@ -12221,7 +12273,7 @@ And guess which idiotic Western website requires real usernames and no privacy?
* 2020-09-21 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-21/matthew-carney-foreign-journalist-china-intimidation-birtles/12678610 "'You will be put into detention': Former ABC bureau chief tells story of fleeing China for first time"
* 2016 <<video-bbc-local-election-interview-block-2016>>
* 2015 Ursula Gauthier from <<liubukou>>
* 2015 Ursula Gauthier from <<liubukou-massacre,Luibukou massacre>>
[[social-credit-system]]
=== Social Credit System (社会信用体系)