{"id":421,"date":"2014-05-17T23:35:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T23:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=421"},"modified":"2014-05-17T23:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T23:35:34","slug":"badiucao-%e5%b7%b4%e4%b8%a2%e8%8d%89-the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/badiucao-%e5%b7%b4%e4%b8%a2%e8%8d%89-the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-gun","title":{"rendered":"Badiucao \u201c\u5df4\u4e22\u8349\u201d: The Pen is Mightier than the Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">For his latest contribution, Badiucao comments on the recent detention of veteran journalist Gao Yu on suspicion of \u201cleaking state secrets.\u201d In a speech accepting a journalism award in 2006, Gao Yu quoted Republican era journalist Shi Liangcai as saying, \u201cYou have a gun, but I have a pen.\u201d In his drawing, Badiucao depicts a pen\u2019s quill being placed in the barrel of a gun to show the power of free speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Pen is Mightier than the Sword, by Badiucao for CDT:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/05\/BDC051314.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/05\/BDC051314.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BDC051314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/05\/BDC051314-211x300.jpg\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read also a CDT Q&amp;A with Badiucao in which he discusses his artistic and personal influences. All Badiucao cartoons for CDT are available here.<\/p>\n<p>From http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/05\/badiucao-%E5%B7%B4%E4%B8%A2%E8%8D%89-pen-mightier-gun\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For his latest contribution, Badiucao co &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/badiucao-%e5%b7%b4%e4%b8%a2%e8%8d%89-the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-gun\">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":[35,95],"tags":[92,94,1347],"views":4700,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}