Immortality, disagree, emigrate, and personality cult - here's every word and phrase China censored after criticism of Xi Jinping's potentially unending reign
I oppose
Disagree
Personality cult
1984
Animal farm
The emperor's dream
Also banned:
- My emperor
- Named emperor
- Proclaim oneself emperor
- First year of an emperor's reign
Slavery
Shameless
Emigrate
Searches for the term 'emigrate' spiked on Baidu, China's search engine.
Incapable ruler
Disney
Winnie the Pooh
The bear apparently looks like Xi, and pictures of Winnie wearing a crown and sitting in a throne spread on Weibo.
Ascend the throne
Also banned:
- Urge a power figure to formally seize the throne
To board a plane
This sounds similar to "ascend the throne."
Change trains
Go against the tide
Big River, Big Sea
The title of a 2009 book about the Chinese Civil War.
Rule the world
Throughout the ages
Change the law
Reign title
Universal celebration
Chinese emperor stock
Chinese speculators pounced on stocks with "emperor" in their name after term limits were scrapped.
Yellow gown
Yellow was the imperial colour, the colour of the emperor.
Roll up sleeves
A phrase once said by Xi.
Chairman, lifelong control
Xi Zedong
Recover one's authority
Brave New World
Crooked-neck tree
One emporer is said to have hanged himself on a crooked tree.
The wheel of history
I'm willing to be a vegetarian for the rest of my life
A viral line in the show "Empresses in the Palace."
Oppose Qing, restore Ming
Qing was the last imperial dynasty.
Also banned:
- "Dream of Returning to the Great Qing," a 2006 book.
Great men sent from heaven
Long live the emperor
Also banned:
- Long live
- Lifelong
- For life system
Thousands of years
Immortality
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