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China Appears to Censor Any Online Discussion of an Ex-Leader’s Healthtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb! g) G- g/ w+ R! r; l0 z
Andrew Jacobs New York Times 7 Jul 2011( E. K8 U: b2 W! U0 |7 P _
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5 W! h9 U7 u" k9 L. E- T( P1 ]0 A/ GTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。What do Jiangsu Province, the minor pop idol Jiang Yirong and Huadong Hospital in Shanghai have in common? Over the past day, these and scores of other words and expressions have been blocked on much of the Chinese Internet, a result of the government’s unrelenting attempt to quash widespread rumors that the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin is dead or dying.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb- X5 A9 k8 a1 L7 k$ _% C) V: L
3 M6 I, Z- u' P, _2 a! p9 LNot surprisingly, the stepped-up effort to silence speculation about the well being of Mr. Jiang, 84, who officially retired as party chief in 2002 and as president in 2003, has generated even more rumors since last Friday after he failed to attend the 90th anniversary gala commemorating the birth of the Chinese Communist Party.
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- T) \7 B$ R# A3 s2 p5 s1 D& w( {公仔箱論壇On Thursday morning, the official Xinhua News Agency issued an English-language response to the reports that Mr. Jiang had died, saying they were “pure rumor” and quoting what it said were“authoritative sources.” Later in the day, during a regularly scheduled news conference, a Foreign Ministry spokesman declined to answer any questions about Mr. Jiang’s health, referring journalists to the Xinhua statement. That exchange, however, was curiously omitted from a transcript of the news conference posted on the ministry’s website.
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While China’s ruling party has not in recent years suppressed news about the death of an important leader, officials rarely, if ever, discuss the health of current or former leaders, and they ban news coverage of those subjects.; I' I3 ^5 k2 W' N
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7 Z+ l, H s$ H9 i* n4 dIn many instances, the offending words contain the character “Jiang,” the former leader’s surname, which also means “river” in Chinese. Huadong, also unsearchable, is the top-notch hospital where Mr. Jiang,the once jaunty Communist Party general secretary, may or may not have been treated for a heart attack, a stroke or infected mosquito bites — all ailments alternately blamed for his disappearance from public view.
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Speculative online accounts have repeated as fact the rumor that the respirator supposedly keeping Mr. Jiang alive would be unplugged on July 8. The number eight is considered lucky among the Chinese because it rhymes with another character meaning prosperity. (While the accounts are likely to be false, some historical accounts say an ailing Mao Zedong was taken off life support on Sept. 9, 1976, because the ninth day of the ninth month would be an easy date for the masses to remember.)
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Mr. Jiang last appeared on state television in2009, when he joined other senior leaders reviewing a military spectacle marking the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.5.39.217.76* e. t4 t3 e1 q3 O; Q
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Talk about Mr. Jiang’s impending demise has ricocheted across the Internet and then faded numerous times over the years.But his failure to show up at the 90th anniversary celebration, a required event for retired party elders as well as current leaders, raises the likelihood that he is in fact ailing.
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$ H8 p/ u' `* t4 L6 n. O R7 Z7 NA Hong Kong television station went so far as to broadcast news of Mr. Jiang’s death before retracting the report. And overseas Chinese Web sites that specialize in political gossip have been claiming that Mr. Jiang died Tuesday night or that a large number of police officers were spotted outside the Beijing hospital that caters to senior leaders. (Not surprisingly, that institution, the 301 Military Hospital, can no longer be searched on the Internet.)TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。# j# [' ~8 k5 C2 ?+ e
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Sam Crane, a China expert at Williams College, suggested that the government censorship machine was counterproductive. “It’s making them look very foolish,” he said. “The state is trying to control information so they can control the narrative, but in the Internet era that’s harder and harder to do.”5.39.217.762 n; J# @: Y# j! k Q
, e- O6 ]6 L; @8 B, ^4 r8 n& ~公仔箱論壇The narrative about Communist Party leaders has always been a fraught business, with the passing of top leaders sometimes proving politically disruptive. In 1976, after the death of the beloved Prime Minister Zhou Enlai, party leaders tried to suppress public mourning. In the end, as many as two million people defied the authorities by gathering in Tiananmen Square, where they criticized the Gang of Four, Mao and the excesses of his Cultural Revolution.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb- {3 k) v; @5 O- \. f# I
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A decade later, the unexpected death of General Secretary Hu Yaobang led to an outpouring of public grief in Tiananmen Square that morphed into a mass protest against the party. That episode, which ended in a hail of gunfire on June 4, 1989, shook the party to its core.
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( q% h J. e. {8 k5.39.217.76The death of Mr. Jiang, whose tenure is not especially savored by Chinese liberals, would not be likely to draw such an emotional public response. But the Communist Party does not like to leave anything to chance.
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" `. c4 r0 V) [# q5 j9 @公仔箱論壇Roderick MacFarquhar, a China specialist at Harvard University, said that even if the rumor about Mr. Jiang’s failing health proved true, the party had never hidden public disclosure about the death of a senior leader. Any delay, even if brief, might be aimed at allowing the members of the Politburo Standing Committee to prepare his obituary and public eulogy, which would presumably be delivered by President Hu Jintao, who succeeded him as party chief.. y5 a6 [1 l: w2 Q7 F/ t$ c# }
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“They need time to prepare, not so much for the funeral, but for the description of the man and his place in Chinese Communist Party history,” Mr. MacFarquhar said.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb q4 f0 W; L* p0 Q
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In the meantime, the government’s handling of the matter seems to be prompting a torrent of ridicule on the Internet, especially on Twitter and other overseas sites that are beyond the control of Beijing’s censors. On Wednesday, people began circulating photographs of Mr. Jiang shaking hands with the former leader Deng Xiaoping (“they meet again”) and a cartoon of a pair of trousers hanging on a clothesline that is meant to be a reference to a Chinese euphemism for death.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb3 b; ?& I& d$ u J# V& s
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Mia Li and Adam Century contributed research. |
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Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty Images
For the past 24+ hours, anyone following various social-media feeds* about China has seen rumors, then official denials, then silence, about the possible demise of former president Jiang Zemin, shown in his prime at right. Jiang would turn 85 next month. tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb8 A0 \' b% E6 Z( N
Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesMao Zedong once swam in the mighty Yangtze, but former Chinese president Jiang Zemin has made it disappear. 
ReutersChinese President Hu Jintao (R), former President Jiang Zemin (C) and National People’s Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo attend a banquet marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing September 30, 2009. 
Google+A screenshot from Google+ shows an image of an empty suit of clothes posted online, apparently in reaction to rumors that former Chinese president Jiang Zemin has died. 
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