The sudden cancelation of comedy gigs, including after audience members report jokes to authorities, has some in China worrying about a “Cultural Revolution 2.0.”
In other instances, bands and performers are turning to the phrase to explain why they have to cancel their concerts — although music commentators suspect it’s really due to low ticket sales.“Can we be a bit honest? Typhoons, floods, blizzards and earthquakes can be called force majeure,”. “But if you didn’t pass censor reviews, couldn’t get the right venue, didn’t sell enough tickets or were forced to cancel by someone, you just say it frankly instead of attributing everything to force majeure.
He was satirizing a slogan for the People’s Liberation Army that Xi Jinping coined in 2013, soon after he became China’s top leader. Since Li’s arrest, nationalist trolls have also targeted well-known Chinese artist Yue Minjun, accusing him of insulting the PLA in a series of paintings that he created in 2007. And Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng, who performs as Uncle Roger, wason the microblogging site Weibo, where he has 400,000 followers, for joking about Xi and China’s surveillance regime.
Li remains in police custody and has not been formally charged. But some lawyers say that criminalizing a joke is going too far, even for Xi’s Chinese Communist Party. Some fear an arbitrary interpretation of arts and the blurring lines between private and public spaces could encourage people to turn upon each other, creating a “Cultural Revolution 2.0.”During the decade-long Cultural Revolution, which ended in 1976, intellectuals, business owners, dissidents and others deemed disloyal to the Communist Party were sent to the countryside, often after being ratted out by friends or family members.
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