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News that comedian Guo Degang is under investigation by the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism for a playful riff on an old “red tune” has set alarm bells ringing about the state of artistic censorship in China.
This post from WeChat account 百里曾游 Bǎilǐ Céngyóu ("100 Li Once Traveled"), deleted at the source but archived at CDT Chinese, describes the gauntlet of security checks, ID-card scans, pat-downs, bag-checks, book-checks, hem-lifts, and shoe-squeezes involved in visiting Zhengyangmen, also known as Qianmen, the towering gate at the southern edge of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
The announcement that two Chinese mathematicians have won the Fields Medal, awarded every four years to outstanding mathematicians under 40, has been met with an outpouring of national pride on Chinese social media, as well as debate about the state of Chinese academia and whether there is enough domestic support and encouragement for emerging academic …