The People’s Court hereby finds you guilty on all charges of watching a film on your telephone and watching a theme park movie. The court sentences you to extreme death by flaying then firing squad.
Good morning. It's June 4, two-thousand and twenty-four, and it's a Tuesday. Here in Beijing, beautiful blue skies, a few... wispy clouds, red sun rising. Very still. Around 65 degrees Fahrenheit right now, 18 Celsius. Should get up to the mid-eighties this afternoon, around 26 Celsius. Sunshine all the way! Have a great day everyone!
It's not just mistranslation of the phrase; the tweet deliberately excises context surrounding it, seemingly to imply that the CPC is trying to do some sort of crude artistic censorship, as if Xi is trying to prevent the Chinese from watching superhero slop movies, playing gacha games, or reading Ulysses because James Joyce included too many fart jokes in it, that it's some sort of socialist-flavoured puritanical mass thought control project, rather than doing pragmatic and measured anti-corruption/anti-graft stuff among the elite to avoid inciting mass political dissatisfaction.
volunteering at the local soup kitchen (btw, do they even have those in China?
I've volunteered at an equivalent of a soup kitchen before (free vegetarian kitchen with volunteer staff) a couple of times. the food was pretty good, a couple of vegetable dishes, tofu, soup and rice. it was frequented mostly by old folks rather than homeless, since I guess the town it was in didn't really have many homeless people. I know bigger cities do have bigger homeless populations though, but nothing like in the west or japan/taiwan/korea.
these kind of veg kitchens exist in most mid-large cities and are staffed by volunteers, most of which are also retired folks, except for the chefs maybe. the groceries are mostly donated, like someone will donate several huge sacks of rice or jugs of cooking oil, or help buy fresh veg etc.
Yes actually, the government offers very good masters scholarship programmes, and from my experience when you find a decently reputable college and are able to communicate in English either via Email or Phone they're very willing to work with you.
Article 150 covers bringing the party into disrepute by living too egregious of a conspicuous consumption hypebeast lifestyle. So it's actually the "party members shouldn't bring the party into disrepute by buying so many gold-plated Bugatti Veyrons that normal people are beginning to notice/complain" clause.
Technically the "don't get caught at strip clubs" clause is Article 151. Actually, to be serious, it's not even that as Article 151 is not really a generalised "party members can't have extramarital sex ever" rule, but just a "don't abuse your power to be a sex pest" clause. The real "don't get caught in a strip club" provision is Article 153 (i.e. don't "violate social public order and good morals") and since the sex industry is, as far as I'm aware, still very illegal in China, a party member being caught in one is basically also a criminal matter as well as a party discipline matter.
I worry that I'm going to imply a whole thing, but holding it back is one of the types of liberalism. It's funny to have China's revision of Marxism be the arbiter for whether people being revisionist.
I also think the humor that is possible for reporting people for enjoying subjectively bad taste entertainment is limitless
Off topic, but What’s the point of the word revisionist? I understand it has a specific meaning, but isn’t the point of Marxism that it is a living science which is revised and updated to a country’s material conditions?
I wish I were a person capable of answering that question. It's a very good one and we could all stand to have some theory on it. Seems like an incredibly useful teachable moment