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The announcement of a disciplinary investigation into Zhou Yongkang on Tuesday has unleashed a wave of news content prepared by Chinese media during the months in which his fate was known but unofficial. The permissible angle of coverage has been made clear by propaganda authorities, and lingering censorship online shows that some aspects of the case remain off-limits. But the former domestic security chief and Politburo Standing Committee member, the highest official to fall in China in decades, can now be named outright, instead of by indirect references like \u201cZhou Bin\u2019s father,\u201d \u201cMaster Kang\u201d or \u201cYou Know Who.\u201d Global Times\u2019 Chang Meng reports on the immediate appearance of pre-prepared material such as infographics:<\/p>\n
These sophisticated designs, especially those developed by big news portals such as Sina and Netease, were clearly well-prepared and waiting for the news. They mostly illustrate Zhou\u2019s intricate power networks, his family members, and a timeline of the downfall of his key prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, which led to his own investigation step by step.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Zhou\u2019s name, which was a censored word on China\u2019s search engines and social networks, was unbanned almost immediately.<\/p>\n
A large number of investigative reports digging into the power-growing and money-making history of Zhou\u2019s network, represented by a series of five stories published by caixin.com, went viral online Wednesday. [Source]<\/p>\n
A piece on Caixin\u2019s English site also describes the \u201copening of the media floodgates.\u201d Its main Chinese site, like many others, has a special focus page on Zhou\u2019s case presenting new reports and an impressive animated illustration of Zhou\u2019s network alongside earlier material.<\/p>\n
Surveying the melee at Reuters, Megha Rajagopalan noted that veiled coverage of Zhou\u2019s case had received an apparent green light some months ago:<\/p>\n
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