Ciro Santilli，Opinions and content are my own, not my employer's，2018新疆改造中心，1989六四事件，1999法轮功 ，2019 996.ICU, 2018包子露宪，2015 710律师劫，2015巴拿马文件 邓家贵，2017低端人口，2008西藏骚乱scriptalert(1)/script
Ciro Santilli，Opinions and content are my own, not my employer's，2018新疆改造中心，1989六四事件，1999法轮功 ，2019 996.ICU, 2018包子露宪，2015 710律师劫，2015巴拿马文件 邓家贵，2017低端人口，2008西藏骚乱scriptalert(1)/script
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ This repo has the following goals:
* serve as a censorship bomb to block GitHub in China: <<keyword-attack>>. Or more realistically get added to the <<github-gov-takedowns>> hall of fame.
* be a fun and sometimes silly source of Chinese mostly anti-CCP culture like a better https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/China[Unencyclopedia] / http://web.archive.org/web/20191209021646/http://encyclopediadramatica.rs/China[Encyclopedia Dramatica] without the stupid stereotype jokes. Just quickly browse the pictures with Ctrl + F "Figure" and have fun.
* serve as a place where people can post interesting related stuff in the issues: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/issues see also: <<shitpost>>
* highlight positive about China's culture outside of it's shitty government, such as <<the-best-chinese-supermarket-food-products,food>> and <<music>>. This has two goals:
** teach foreigners (maybe even Chinese people on certain points) about amazing Chinese things that they can consume
** show wumaos that <<ciro-santilli>> is not as clueless about China as they think
[[faq]]
== FAQ 常见问答集
@@ -175,7 +178,7 @@ Definitely, the current regime is better than Mao's, but just imagine how rich C
Imperial China lost the race for the Industrial Revolution. Will another dictatorship be able to stay on top of the next technological revolution?
===== Censorship makes countries poorer
==== Censorship makes countries poorer
<<dictatorship,Dictatorships>> need <<censorship>> to survive, and they must control all information to make themselves always look good: <<dictator-needs-gfw>>.
@@ -221,13 +224,22 @@ although like any other political argument, https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/01/a
Virus outbreaks and other natural disasters also illustrate this well: <<corona>>.
[[corona]]
====== Initial censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus 2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查
===== Censorship of the 2019 Corona Virus 2019冠状病毒病早期迹象审查
The Chinese Government censored the initial outbreak, which likely made the situation much worse than what it could have been:
The Chinese Government censored the initial outbreak in January and did not inform Wuhan on January 8, which likely made the situation much worse than what it could have been. Timeline:
* <<caixin>> article about how early Coronavirus signs were censored
* 2019-12-27 several genomics companies had sequenced the coronavirus and noticed the similarity to Sars
* 2020-01-03 findings were sent to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Center_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention[Centre for Disease Control] (CDC, https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中国疾病预防控制中心[中国疾病预防控制中心]) in Beijing, but then the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Commission[Chinese National Health Commission] (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/中华人民共和国国家卫生健康委员会[中华人民共和国国家卫生健康委员会]), China's top medical authority, issued orders to not talk about it and destroy samples
* 2020-01-08 CDC team went to Wuhan to see the situation, was not informed that contagiousness of the disease had been confirmed
* 2020-01-20 the findings were made public, in an interview with Zhong Nanshan. He later said in an interview that the local government should be blamed: https://youtu.be/LK1Pz8FmryM?t=132
* 2020-01-23 Wuhan begins lockdown
* 2020-01-25 Chinese New Year
News coverage:
* <<caixin>> article about how early Coronavirus signs were censored:
** http://china.caixin.com/2020-03-10/101526309.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20200317111527/http://china.caixin.com/2020-03-10/101526309.html[archive]) "李文亮所在医院为何医护人员伤亡惨重？" (Why did Li Wenliang's [李文亮] hospital suffer heavy casualties?)
** https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-02-29/in-depth-how-early-signs-of-a-sars-like-virus-were-spotted-spread-and-throttled-101521745.html (paywall) "In Depth: How Early Signs of a SARS-Like Virus Were Spotted, Spread, and Throttled"
** https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-scientists-destroyed-proof-of-virus-in-december-rz055qjnj "Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December". Paywall skip: http://archive.md/xOKiu Terrible copy paste of some Caixin article with no sources/precise names.
@@ -235,6 +247,13 @@ The Chinese Government censored the initial outbreak, which likely made the situ
* https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5xykx/you-can-now-go-to-jail-in-china-for-criticizing-beijings-coronavirus-response "You Can Now Go to Jail in China for Criticizing Beijing’s Coronavirus Response"
* https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdn4d/doctors-in-wuhan-are-still-dying-and-beijing-is-still-trying-to-silence-them Ai Fen's (艾芬) report of how the situation was mishandling was censored
On the other hand, one may argue that the "city closure" measures were stronger/faster than in democracies.
GitHub repo documenting it without censorship:
* https://github.com/2019ncovmemory/nCovMemory
* https://github.com/memoryhonest/nCovMemory-en
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://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/09/asia/wuhan-citizen-journalist-intl-hnk/index.html "Chen Qiushi spoke out about the Wuhan virus. Now his family and friends fear he's been silenced"
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwpr55PZEJ8 "Lawyer Chen Qiushi documenting coronavirus epicentre disappears" by "South China Morning Post"
** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvBNpkxrJo "Fang Bin is second Chinese citizen journalist to vanish while reporting from coronavirus epicentre" by "South China Morning Post"
==== Why would democracy and freedom of speech make China less likely to start a war?
@@ -683,11 +728,14 @@ It is amusing that there is a <<russia,Soviet>> movie criticizes dictatorships.
When the dictatorship turns again you our your family, will you fight, or will you just let them do whatever they want because they can never be wrong? See also: <<intolerance>>.
===== Most Chinesepeopleliketheirdictatorship
[[most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship]]
===== Most Chinese people like their dictatorship 中国大众支持他们的独裁
It is easy to reach an agreement, when everyone who disagrees goes to jail or gets killed.
It is easy to reach an agreement, when everyone who disagrees goes to jail or gets killed due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciting_subversion_of_state_power[Inciting subversion of state power 煽动颠覆国家政权罪].
One is reminded of the game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Happy_Few["We Happy Few" (2018)]:
Also ask <<tiananmen,these guys>>, and <<falun-gong,these>>, and <<xinjiang,these>>.
One is reminded of the game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Happy_Few["We Happy Few" (2018)], which which people are forced to be happy. <<nineteen-eighty-four>> also comes to mind of course.
.IGN review of the "We Happy Few" (2018) game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndzntIDLFE[Source].
video::zndzntIDLFE[youtube,height=400,width=600]
@@ -1033,13 +1081,15 @@ Therefore, if you think that living in China is fundamental to understand it, pl
But <<why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much,his wife is>>.
==== Does Ciro Santillispeak Chinese?
[[does-ciro-santilli-speak-chinese]]
==== Does Ciro Santilli speak Chinese? 三西猴会说中文吗？
As of 2019, oral enough for daily things, but not understand most natural casual dinner conversation or watch TV series, because they go too quickly into vocabulary subject areas that I don't know.
@@ -1185,7 +1235,8 @@ So the rationale of my actions is _not_ to convince anyone, but rather:
See also: <<preconceived>>
==== Does Ciro Santillihate China?
[[does-ciro-santilli-hate-china]]
==== Does Ciro Santilli hate China? 三西猴讨厌中国吗？
On the contrary. China has his favorite:
@@ -1339,6 +1390,8 @@ OK, shall we put that to an anonymous vote just to make sure?
Dear sir or madam: do you want more control over your government? y/n
Oops, I forgot that <<most-chinese-people-like-their-dictatorship,proposing such a vote would put in you jail>>, nevermind.
[[violence]]
=== Would it be right to use violence to overthrow the CCP?
@@ -1639,6 +1692,10 @@ Some interesting links:
* http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/62447/how-can-a-citizen-of-mainland-china-visit-taiwan/62466#comment178495_62466 hi, I want a "not VISA" to Taiwan. Thanks.
* https://youtu.be/6aZkM_ZLvjE?t=50 (zh) "【這就是科學｜柯文哲】EP3／從癌症治療看政治！除惡務盡→除惡「勿」盡？「與敵共存」才是生存之道！", 柯文哲, 2019-06-26. Ko Wen-je , the mayor of Taipei 台北 and a professor in medicine, applies the concept of isolation and mutation in evolution to Taiwan and China
News:
* 2020-03-27 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-usa/u-s-increases-support-for-taiwan-in-recognition-battle-with-china-idUSKBN21E0B7 "U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law an act that requires increased U.S. support for Taiwan internationally". But he didn't recognize it as a country. Semi bullshit.
.The flag of Taiwan. Like most modern countries, Taiwan has one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg[Source].
@@ -1936,7 +1993,7 @@ Once that is taken care of, a few good options are:
And regardless: remember your kids that the commies are bastards every day.
[[reply-policy]]
=== Ciro Santilli's reply policy
=== Ciro Santilli's reply policy 三西猴的回答政策
People get kind of passionate sometimes about politics. And some of them might also be just malicious <<wumao,wumaos>>, although it is generally not possible to distinguish between them.
Born and raised in China: <<why-does-ciro-santilli-love-china-so-much>>.
@@ -2097,6 +2155,12 @@ Can they add an entire user to gov-takedowns?
But remember that we also have: <<mirrors>>, and that this can be easily rendered as a single HTML page and uploaded to any static website host.
===== Other interesting GitHub information repositories
* taibangle (太棒了)
** https://github.com/taibangle/awesome-china
** https://github.com/taibangle/lennon-wall
[[zhihu]]
==== Zhihu 知乎
@@ -2205,7 +2269,7 @@ ____
===== Zhihu questions related to Ciro Santilli
Parent section: <<backlinks-to-this-repository>>
Parent section: <<backlinks>>
All Zhihu posts related to Ciro Santilli were deleted following <<zhihu-purge>>. Some had been deleted before.
@@ -2269,7 +2333,7 @@ Added my Noodle shop to maps: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Tiananmen+Squa
+
Leach websites that picked it up: http://kvalster.se/Falu/Uthyres/Lagenheter/Gammelvagen_49_1417351
Quora is also shitty because wumaos can downvote your answer privately regardless of reputation and make it become collapsed as "Answer may need improvement", which means it goes to the bottom and readers have to click an "expand collapsed answers" button to see it, so that very few people will ever see it. Then have to appeal and wait for moderators to evaluate it. This happened for example at: https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-I-walked-around-Beijing-with-a-t-shirt-that-said-freedom-of-speech-is-pretty-great/answer/Ciro-Santilli (see also <<t-shirt>>). Ciro appealed in 2020-03-10 and the answer was reinstated on day later, but by then the question was already not being suggested as much to readers, and the other wumao answers (which criticize the USA rather than answering the question)
Quora is also shitty because wumaos can downvote your answer privately regardless of reputation and make it become collapsed as "Answer may need improvement", which means it goes to the bottom and readers have to click an "expand collapsed answers" button to see it, so that very few people will ever see it. Then have to appeal and wait for moderators to evaluate it. This happened for example at: https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-I-walked-around-Beijing-with-a-t-shirt-that-said-freedom-of-speech-is-pretty-great/answer/Ciro-Santilli (see also <<t-shirt>>). Ciro appealed in 2020-03-10 and the answer was reinstated on day later, but by then the question was already not being suggested as much to readers, and the other wumao answers (which criticize the USA rather than answering the question about China).
Other shitty aspects of Quora include:
@@ -2487,7 +2551,7 @@ And yet, all those who love freedom, must oppose FLG ban, or be themselves ensla
In any case, at least FLG got one thing right: the commies are <<is-the-chinese-government-is-evil,evil>>, and we have to get rid of them.
See also: <<flg-is-fake>>.
See also: <<flg-fake>>.
[[flg-bias]]
==== Do you support FLG just because your wife and mother-in-law do it?
@@ -2648,7 +2712,8 @@ This might be a bad law that should be changed.
It was perfectly legal for <<nazi,Nazis>> to kill Jews. Does it make that right?
==== FLG is fake
[[flg-fake]]
==== FLG is fake 法轮功是假的
The same can be argued about any other religion or political belief of type: it is better if we organize society in this or that way.
@@ -3646,11 +3716,13 @@ The following offer interesting commentary, but not to be used as primary source
* https://china-journal.org
* http://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.
=== Biasedmedia
[[biased-media]]
=== Biased media 偏见媒体
I consider the media in this section biased, and never cite it for fact checking.
* 2019-10-13 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-13/cssa-influence-australian-universities-documents-revealed/11587454 (https://web.archive.org/web/20191014032348/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-13/cssa-influence-australian-universities-documents-revealed/11587454[archive]) "Chinese Students and Scholars Association's deep links to the embassy revealed" in Australia.
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 resouces, e.g.:
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."
* 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"
==== USA government media
==== USA government media 美国政府媒体
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
** http://www.voa.com/
@@ -3942,6 +4017,8 @@ ____
Where they have deleted online posts, they will end in deleting human beings.
____
It is actually easier for the USA to manipulate a dictatorship than a democracy, because then all you have to do is buy/blackmail a few key corrupt politicians instead of manipulating millions of people's feeds.
.Internal censorship is so strong, that many Chinese people who leave China to live abroad continue to believe that the CCP is always right, despite having access evidence that suggests otherwise. This <<rebel-pepper>> 2019-08 cartoon shows frogs coming out of a big well still remain inside their own small wells made up of Chinese media such as <<zhihu-purge,Zhihu>> and CCTV. It is a reference to the Chinese proverb https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/井底之蛙[井底之蛙] which means that a frog in the bottom of the well can only see a very limited portion of the sky. https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/biantailajiaomanhua/lj-08302019111414.html[Source].
Buy frozen. Pick the ones with meat and eggs!!! Boil.
@@ -5004,6 +5076,12 @@ Not worth it:
+
1050B rue Clark
== Chinese television 中国电视
Modern themed television is generally crap due to <<censorship>>, but this leads to a big focus on ancient stuff, and some of it is amazing.
* 1994 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms_(TV_series) | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/三国演义_(电视剧) The best https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms[Three Kingdoms 三国] adaptation of all time? Mind blowing. There seems to exist a version with full Chinese + English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_r3eWfTMDs&list=PLdAMXqGeRsOkXzuocRkBPhe5RhZ6RotGH&index=2
[[learn-chinese]]
== Tips to learn Chinese 学习中文方法建议
@@ -5019,14 +5097,23 @@ Some have Chinese subtitles, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFSMvtS6SYQ a
Associate one word to each character/character component.
One good way to find mnemonics is to just Google for whatever random words you want to fit into a sentence. You end up learning fun things this way, and those make the best mnemonics.
Then to learn a new character, break it down into components, and create a sentence or short story that includes all the component words.
* <<characters>>: our own!!!!!
* http://rtega.be/chmn/ CC-BY-NO-SA but not clear way to contribute to it
* Proprietary books
** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0824833236 "Remembering Simplified Hanzi" by James W. Heisig and Timothy W. Richardson from 2008. This is the classic.
** https://www.amazon.com/dp/9881919339 STICK by Dr. Melanie Schmidt ed.
** https://www.amazon.com/dp/109565960X "Learn Chinese Characters: Easy Mnemonics to Memorize Hanzi: 400+ Characters, 700+ Vocabulary, 1300+ Practice Questions with Solutions" by L Castelluzzo
Single author open source Pleco + "Remembering Simplified Hanzi" in a single .adoc file? Let's go.
@@ -5035,7 +5122,11 @@ We'd use http://rtega.be/chmn/ as basis if it weren't for the NO in CC-BY-NO-SA?
Format will be very constant, database like. Would therefore be cool to parse it from the Asciidoctor into a proper database as a way to verify and allow third party usage.
Base mnemonic compnents can come more or less directly from the 214 Kangxi radicals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radical
Base mnemonic components can come more or less directly from the 214 Kangxi radicals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangxi_radical
One key principle is that characters and words often don't have a well translatable meaning: the minimal always translatable unit is a sentence: <<sentences>>!
You can't fully learn a language by learning words and characters alone, you must learn sentences.
=== Characters
@@ -5058,10 +5149,39 @@ Characters:
* <character-containing>
* <character-containing>
Translations:
* <<english-word>>
** <<chinese-sentence-containing>>
Notes: <<random-text>>
....
Notes:
* `Translations` is only used when it is a single character word, if it goes inside a word, only the word will contain the sentence
[[龶]]
==== 龶
==== 龶 (-, TODO)
Mnemonic: the top part of "<<青>>" (青字頭) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/龶
[[巴]]
==== 巴 (ba1, Brazil)
Characters:
* <<爬>>
Words:
* <<巴西>>
[[匕]]
==== 匕 (bi3, spoon)
Mnemonic: an ancient spoon, looks like this: https://read01.com/aAEn50x.html#.XnfZDN_niV4 "古人吃饭最早不用筷子，用的是“匕”，那“匕”是什么？
[[表]]
==== 表 (biao3, watch [device])
@@ -5072,15 +5192,26 @@ Words:
* <<列表>>
[[歹]]
==== 歹 (dai3, villain)
[[寸]]
==== 寸 (cun4, inch)
Mnemonic: <<一>> <<夕>>, one villain attacked!
Characters:
* <<讨>>
[[歹]]
==== 歹 (dai3, supervillain)
Mnemonic: that evening (<<夕>>), one (<<一>>) **supervillain** attacked our base!
Characters:
* <<列>>
Words:
* <<歹人>>
[[刀]]
==== 刀 (dao1, knife)
@@ -5093,15 +5224,74 @@ Characters:
[[列]]
==== 列 (lie4, list)
Mnemonic: there must exist a <<列>> of <<歹>> with <<刀>> on the web? (knife-yielding villain list!) https://techland.time.com/2010/09/03/top-ten-heroes-and-villians-with-big-knives/
Mnemonic: there must exist a **list** of **supervillains** (<<歹>>) with **knives** (<<刀>>) on the web? A knife-yielding supervillain **list**! https://techland.time.com/2010/09/03/top-ten-heroes-and-villians-with-big-knives/
Words:
* <<列表>>
[[论]]
==== 论 (lun4, rationale)
Mnemonic: "**rationale**" the fancy way that engineers **say** (<<言>>) "**logic**" (<<仑>>)
Words:
* <<理论>>
[[仑]]
==== 仑 (lun2, logic)
Mnemonic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory[spoon theory] is very logical and explains how using **spoons** (<<匕>>) is a good metaphor for a **person**'s (<<人>>) energy consumption
Characters:
* <<论>>
[[爬]]
==== 爬 (pa2, climb)
Mnemonic: you need claws (<<爪>>) to **climb** **Brazil**'s (<<巴>>) tallest mountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_da_Neblina[Pico da Neblina]
Words:
* <<爬行>>
[[青]]
==== 青 (qing1, blue)
Notes: it is more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyan[green-blue/Cyan], see also https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/青色 but let's call it blue because it will be used in many constructs.
[[人]]
==== 人 (ren2, person)
Short versions: 亻
Characters:
* <<仑>>
Words:
* <<歹人>>
[[讨]]
==== 讨 (tao3, discuss)
Mnemonic: in their **discussions** (<<讨论>>), they always **talked** (<<言>>) about how his penis was only one **inch** <<寸>> long
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