Saw in boon lay got this banner
say harmonious committee which is supported by many agencies,
hanging on river valley school fences, then recall this
'river crab' idea is actually very similar to China
communist party doctrine of...........
The construction of a
Harmonious Society (simplified Chinese: 和谐社会; traditional Chinese: 和諧社會; pinyin:
héxié shèhuì) is a socio-economic vision that is said to
be the ultimate end result of Chinese leader Hu Jintao's signature ideology of the Scientific Development
Concept. It serves as the ultimate goal for the
ruling Communist
Party of China along with
Xiaokang society, which aims for a
"basically well-off" middle-class oriented society
河蟹 (English:
River crab), is an internet slang created by netizens in Mainland China in reference to
Internet censorship. The
word river crab sounds similar to the word
harmonious in Chinese Mandarin. The three wristwatches refer to the
Three
Represents, where the
Mandarin expressions used for "represent" and "to wear a
watch" are homophones.
Since the Chinese
Communist Party announced
the goal of constructing a "Harmonious Society" in 2004 and
the government of Mainland China usually cites this as the reason
for censorship, Chinese netizens began to use the word "harmonious"
as a euphemism for censorship, when the word for censorship was
censored.
And when the word harmonious began
to be censored, Chinese netizens began to use the word "river
crab". Sometimes aquatic
product 水产 is used in place of "river crab". It is
also used as a verb, for example, instead of saying something has
been censored, one might say "it has been harmonized"
(simplified Chinese: 被和谐了; traditional Chinese: 被和諧了) or "it has been river-crabbed"
(simplified Chinese: 被河蟹了). In some BBSs,
"harmonious" is a censored word, so netizens use "river crab"
instead.wiki
