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2014-07-24 China-Japan-Koreas
Reports: China Censors Squash Giant Inflatable Toad
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Posted by Fred 2014-07-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
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#1 Part of this is related to the nature of Mandarin Chinese. Reading the sequence of numbers: 571, or in Pinyin, Wǔ qī yī, aloud, sounds very close to a term meaning "armed uprising", Wǔ qǐ yì. "64" can refer the Tienanmen Square protests of 1989. The PRC censors are always on the lookout for anything like this.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-07-24 00:40||   2014-07-24 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 There's metaphor somewhere here involving 'Toadlick', but it's too early to be torturing the language.
Posted by ed in texas 2014-07-24 07:34||   2014-07-24 07:34|| Front Page Top

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