{"id":1471,"date":"2014-06-13T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:08:10","slug":"minitrue-i-can-massacre-the-city-you-cant-say-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/minitrue-i-can-massacre-the-city-you-cant-say-a-word","title":{"rendered":"Minitrue: \u201cI Can Massacre the City, You Can\u2019t Say a Word\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All websites are to stop re-publishing and recommending the People\u2019s Daily commentary \u201cI Can Massacre the City, You Can\u2019t Say a Word.\u201d (June 12, 2014)<\/p>\n<p>\u5173\u4e8e\u4eba\u6c11\u65e5\u62a5\u7684\u8bc4\u8bba\u300a\u6211\u53ef\u4ee5\u5c60\u57ce \u4f60\u4e0d\u80fd\u51fa\u58f0\u300b\uff0c\u5404\u7f51\u7ad9\u4e0d\u8981\u7ee7\u7eed\u8f6c\u8f7d\u548c\u63a8\u8350\u3002<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, China\u2019s foreign ministry confirmed that Beijing had submitted documents on the Nanjing Massacre and Japan\u2019s use of wartime \u201ccomfort women\u201d to the UN to be considered for inclusion in the UNESCO Memory of the World register. Most recent reports say that UNESCO has accepted China\u2019s application.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Chief Cabinet Secretary denounced China\u2019s application, saying, \u201cAt a time when efforts are needed to improve Japan-China relations, it is extremely regrettable that China moved to make political use of the UNESCO forum and to unnecessarily play up the negative legacy of ties from a period of the past.\u201d State run newspaper People\u2019s Daily in turn published a castigation of the Japanese official, titled \u201cI Can Massacre the City, You Can\u2019t Say a Word\u201d (\u6211\u53ef\u4ee5\u5c60\u57ce \u4f60\u4e0d\u80fd\u51fa\u58f0, a rhyming couplet when read in Mandarin: w\u01d2 k\u011byi t\u00fach\u00e9ng n\u01d0 b\u00f9n\u00e9ng ch\u016bsh\u0113ng).<\/p>\n<p>While the title was cleverly rhymed, the timing of its publication was a bit less shrewd. The headline came just over a week after the 25th anniversary of the June 4th government crackdown on Tiananmen protesters\u2014an event also unofficially called a \u201cmassacre,\u201d discussion about which the government strictly forbids. Some netizens took note:<\/p>\n<p>\u4f43\u519c\u7406\u8bba: What a careless editor. The date-stamp is over a week late\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u7f16\u8f91\u7c97\u5fc3\u4e86\uff0c\u65e5\u671f\u6807\u665a\u4e86\u4e00\u4e2a\u591a\u793c\u62dc\u2026 (\u4eca\u5929 00:23)<\/p>\n<p>\u8ff7\u4f60\u732b710\uff1aThat\u2019s right! There\u2019s already been 25 years of silence<\/p>\n<p>\u6ca1\u9519\uff01\u5df2\u7ecf\u65e0\u58f0\u4e8c\u5341\u4e94\u5e74\u4e86 (\u4eca\u5929 03:01)<\/p>\n<p>\u5403\u4e1c\u897f336\uff1aIt would have been so awesome if this were published 8 days ago [\u54c8\u54c8]<br \/>\n\u8fd9\u7bc78\u5929\u524d\u53d1\u5c31\u725b\u6bd4\u5927\u4e86[\u54c8\u54c8] (\u4eca\u5929 02:33)<\/p>\n<p>GZ\u52a8\u7269\uff1aOught to switch up a couple of those characters. Don\u2019t forget, it\u2019s still June<\/p>\n<p>\u8981\u6362\u4fe9\u5b57\u5427\uff0c\u522b\u5fd8\u4e86\u73b0\u5728\u8fd8\u662f\u516d\u6708\u5662 (\u4eca\u5929 01:57)<\/p>\n<p>CDT collects directives from a variety of sources and checks them against official Chinese media reports to confirm their implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Since directives are sometimes communicated orally to journalists and editors, who then leak them online, the wording published here may not be exact. The date given may indicate when the directive was leaked, rather than when it was issued. CDT does its utmost to verify dates and wording, but also takes precautions to protect the source.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/550x120xMiniTrue-,PE7,P9C,P9F,PE7,P90,P86,PE9,P83,PA8.jpg.pagespeed.ic.LJSZ8ZtnDD.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WAR IS PEACE \u2022 FREEDOM IS SLAVERY \u2022 IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH<\/p>\n<p>June 12, 2014 2:45 PM<\/p>\n<p>From: http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/06\/minitrue-can-massacre-city-cant-say-word\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following censorship instructions, i &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/minitrue-i-can-massacre-the-city-you-cant-say-a-word\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[37,1348,373],"views":1002,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}