The translations are by Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media.

10 August 2006, 9:09, Chai Yue

Today at 9:30 in the morning, Guangming Net will broadcast the Expert Forum on Preventing Online “Wrongdoing” Becoming Common Practice, all websites are requested to link to corresponding reporting of Guangming Net on the front page of websites, please use the content of this Forum to replace the article on “Rubbish Short Message Reporting Hotline” in the important news section of the front page of the news section.

10 August 2006, 14:00, Chai Yue

All search engines are requested to direct all search results including the three characters of “baby soup” to news websites, and manually delete harmful content in search results.

10 August 2006, 16:17, Chai Yue

“Clash Between Shanxi Taiyuan Railway Bureau and Commissioned Selling Points – 2 Yuan to Be Received Per Ticket” is false information, all websites are requested to delete this article.

10 August 2006, 17:52, Chai Yue

Recently, media reporting on the excessively high income in some monopoly sectors has been relatively concentrated, netizen discussion has been extremely ardent. After inspection, some reports and discussions do not completely conform to facts, and furthermore, continued reporting and hot discussion brings a certain influence on social stability. Against this, all websites are requested to achieve the following few points:

I. On reports and articles concerning excessively high income in monopoly sectors, only transmit Xinhua and People’s Daily articles, no longer transmit copy from other sources.

II. Do not actively guide netizen discussion in forums, do not conduct themed discussion, also, do not organize VIP interviews concerning this issue.

III. Existing reports, articles and forum posts online are to be pushed to the backstage without exception.

IV. Rumors, incitement as well as harmful information attacking the Party and the government must be timely blocked and deleted.

11 August 2006, 14:09, Chai Yue

All websites and forums are requested to make “selected works” into a keyword for screening.

11 August 2006, 17:30, Chai Yue

It is reported that the Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi is preparing to visit the Yasukuni Shrine again within the next few days. Concerning this visit, all websites are requested to achieve the following few points when reprinting or reporting: (1) Timely reprint the consistent position of our country’s government in opposing the visit of Koizumi and facing up to historical issues. In the near future, information related to Japan is not to be put in headers, do not make special subjects, do not open trackers, do not issue mobile short messages; (2) Timely reprint relevant comments from Xinhua, People’s Daily, Global Times and the China Youth Daily; (3) Public opinion is only to be directed at Koizumi individually, persons other than Koizumi or successors may not be involved, and the talks or writing of the Japanese Emperor may not be involved; (4) Strengthen effective supervision and control over forums, blogs, news trackers and other interactive columns. Discussions that incite troublemaking, successive name-signing, rumor-mongering, abuse and other extreme discussions must be timely deleted and blocked.

At the end of August, the president of Venezuela, Chavez, will conduct the 4th State Visit to our country, all websites shall stress the objective reporting of the visit activities itself when they reprint or report this. The anti-American discourse of Chavez may be appropriately and objectively reported, but it may not be excessively played up, do not comment on it, do not link it up with formulations of the sort of “Great Anti-America Link-Up.” All websites must, at the same time as timely reprinting copy form main central news work units, strengthen management over forums, news trackers, blogs and other interactive columns, timely block and delete all sorts of harmful information that do not conform to the above requirements.

11 August 2006, 22:03, Chen Hua

Everyone, posts related to “secret of Lin Biao’s diaries and files uncovered” are to be deleted, and it is to be made into a keyword for screening; concerning the matter of achengguancadre in Haidian, Beijing being stabbed, no reports are to be made without exception. This has already been sent to online service platforms, please receive this and deal with it.

12 August 2006, 11:20, Huang Jing

Recently, a few overseas media reported some information concerning the Beijing Municipal Grain Bureau purchasing 290,000 tons of old grain, and selling it again in 2006. The Beijing Municipal Grain Bureau news spokesperson pointed out: this information is gravely inconsistent with the facts. All websites are required to timely investigate whether or not rumors with corresponding information are present on their sites, and timely delete it. Keywords include “Beijing Municipality,” “Grain Bureau,” “old grain,” “Lu Hao,” etc.

12 August 2006, 12:00, Huang Jing

Everyone, please immediately begin to clean up classifieds concerning illegal installation of household satellite television in your websites, forums and blogs. All search engines will make “Beijing household satellite television installation” and “household satellite television installation” into keywords for screening.

13 August 2006, 12:50, Chai Yue

Everyone, please speedily clean up rumors concerning Vice-Mayor Lu Hao purchasing old grain according to propaganda requirements, at present, large amounts of rumour articles can still be searched for on many websites, please use keywords to screen for this in searches, naturally keywords cannot only be “old grain,” the propaganda requirements for platforms have been written clearly, these are also “Beijing Municipal Grain Bureau” and “Lu Hao.” Deal with discussions related to Lang Xianping, etc.

13 August 2006, 13:03, Chai Yue

1. All websites are requested to change “Hunan Provincial Committee Collects the Popular Will from the Entire World” into “CCP Hunan Provincial Committee Collects the Popular Will Broadly from the People in the Entire Province.”

2. Concerning the matter of a chengguan cadre being stabbed in Haidian, Beijing, please strictly control posts, the orientation absolutely must be to condemn the murderer, fingers may not be pointed at urban management cadres.

13 August 2006, 15:50, Chai Yue

“Private Reception of Foreign Television in Beijing May Be Subject to Criminal Liability”

Please control negative comments on trackers concerning this news item.

14 August 2006, 16:34, Network Management Office

All websites are required to pay attention: please do not transmit reports concerning ticketing issues during the Beijing Olympics Period; if ticketing issues are touched upon in reports concerning the Olympics, please only transmit them after deleting the part concerning the issue of ticketing; where it cannot be deleted, do not reprint the said report with the part involving ticketing issues.

15 August 2006, 8:30, Network Management Office

All websites are requested to publish this article on the top of the domestic news section of the main page of the news centre, and manage posts well. http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2006-08-14/14009745137s.shtml, Beijing Municipal Party Committee Secretary Liu Qi visits the relatives of chengguan personnel who died in the line of duty.

15 August 2006, 9:01, Network Management Office

All websites are requested to put the two articles “Koizumi Visits Yasukuni Shrine Again Today” and “Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Protests Strongly” on the main page of websites and a large header in the news centre. Only use Xinhua and People’s Daily copy. Manage trackers well.

15 August 2006, 11:23, Network Management Office

All websites are requested to add the following keywords again: large dish receiver, large dish, large satellite dish, television reception dish, television dish, non-dish receiver, non-dish satellite receiver, satellite dish, little ear satellite aerial, satellite antenna installation, please ensure that there are no search results for all keywords that require to be screened.

18 August 2006, 9:14, Network Management Office

Information concerning Jung Chang’s book Mao: The Unknown Story is to be deleted without exception!

18 August 2006, 17:23, Network Management Office

Please search for and delete the post “Statement Concerning the Demand to Immediately Cease the Detention of Doctor Xu Zhiyong” in forums.

18 August 2006, 19:58, Network Management Office

Matters related to the book The Spring of Weeping Blood of which the Beijing Municipal Ruibo Times Cultural Center organized the compilation, are not to be disseminated or reported, all search organs shall make “Beijing Municipal Ruibo Times Cultural Center” and “The Spring of Weeping Blood” into keywords for screening.

2006年8月北京网管办发出的禁令（二）
2006年8月10日09时08分 柴玥

今天上午9：30，光明网将直播“防止网上‘恶搞’成风专家座谈会”（http://www.gmw.cn/content/wseg.htm），请各网站在首页链接光明网的相关报道，并用此座谈会内容替代现新闻中心首页要闻区中“垃圾短信举报热线”一稿。
2006年8月10日14时00分 柴玥

请各搜索引擎将包含有“婴儿汤”三个字的所有搜索结果全部指向新闻网站，并手工删除现结果中的不良内容。
2006年8月10日16时17分 柴玥

《山西太原铁路局与代售点起冲突 每张票要收2元》为假消息，请各网删除此稿。
2006年8月10日17时52分 柴玥

近期以来，媒体对某些垄断行业收入过高问题报道比较集中，网民讨论十分热烈。经核实，有些报道和言论并不完全符合事实，而且，持续的报道和热议给社会稳定带来一定的影响。对此，请各网做到如下几点：

一、关于垄断行业收入过高之类的报道和文章，只转新华社和人民日报文章，不再转发其他来源稿件。

二、论坛中不主动引导网民讨论，不要进行点题讨论，也不组织有关此问题的嘉宾访谈。

三、网上现有有关报道文章和论坛帖文一律压至后台。

四、对造谣、煽动以及攻击党和政府的有害信息，要及时封堵和删除。
2006年8月11日14时09分 柴玥

请各网站论坛都把“文选”设为关键字屏蔽
2006年8月11日17时38分柴玥

●据悉，日本首相小泉准备于近日再次参拜靖国神社。对此次参拜请各网在转载报道时做到如下几方面：（一）及时转载我国政府反对小泉参拜、正视历史问 题的一贯立场和日本社会各界健康的声音。近期涉日消息不作头条、不作专题、不开跟帖、不发手机短信；（二）及时转载新华社、人民日报、环球时报、中国青年 报的有关评论；（三）舆论矛头只对准小泉个人，不要涉及小泉以外的人或继任者，不要涉及日本天皇谈话笔录等。（四）加强对论坛、博客、新闻跟帖等互动栏目 的有效监控。对煽动闹事、串联签名、造谣谩骂等过激言论要及时删除和封堵。

●8月下旬，委内瑞拉总统查维斯将对我国进行第四次国事访问，各网在转载报道时应侧重对访问活动自身的客观报道。对查维斯的反美言论可作适当客观报 道，但不要过分渲染，不作评论，不与”反美大串联”之类说法挂钩。各网站在及时转载中央主要新闻单位稿件的同时，要加强对论坛、新闻跟帖、博客等互动栏目 的管理，及时封堵和删除与上述要求不符的各类有害信息。
2006年8月11日22时03分 陈华

各位，有关“林彪日记档案揭秘”相关贴文删除，各搜索设为关键词屏蔽; 有关今天北京海淀一城管干部被刺伤一事一律不报道。已发网上服务平台，请查收并办。
2006年8月12日11时20分 黄婧

近期,海外个别媒体报道了一些关于北京市粮食局采购29万吨陈化粮,又在2006年售出的消息.北京市粮食局新闻发言人指出:此消息与事实严重不符.请各网站及时清查本网站是否有相关内容的谣言,并及时删除.关键词有”北京市”\”粮食局”\”陈化粮”\”陆昊”等.
2006年8月12日12时00分 黄婧

各位，请马上开始清理各自己网站、论坛、博客中关于非法安装家用卫星电视的小广告。各搜索将“北京家用卫星电视安装”、“家用卫星电视安装”设为关键词屏蔽。
2006年8月13日12时50分 柴玥

各位，关于陆昊副市长购进陈化粮的谣言，请按照宣传要求迅速清理一下，目前多家网站还能搜索出大量谣言文章，请用关键词在搜索里屏蔽一下，当然关键字不只是陈化粮，平台的宣传要求写清楚了，还有北京市粮食局、陆昊。朗咸平的有关言论都处理一下。
2006年8月13日13时03分 柴玥

1．请各网将将《湖南省委向全球征集民意》改为《中共湖南省委面向全省民众广泛征集民意》。

2．有关北京海淀一城管干部被刺伤一事，请严格控制跟帖，导向一定要谴责凶手，不要把矛头指向城管干部。
2006年8月13日15时50分柴玥

北京私接境外电视可被追究刑事责任

这条新闻的跟帖请控制负面评论。
2006年8月14日16时35分 网管办

请各网注意：请不要转载有关北京奥运会期间票务问题的报道；如有关奥运会的报道中涉及票务问题，请删除关于票务问题的部分再转载；如无法删除，就不转载部分涉及票务问题的该篇报道。
2006年8月15日08时30分 网管办

请各网站将此稿发在新闻中心首页国内新闻上部，管好跟贴http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2006-08-14/14009745137s.shtml 北京市委书记刘淇看望殉职城管家属
2006年8月15日09时01分 网管办

请各网将《小泉今日再次参拜靖国神社》、《 中国外交部强烈抗议》两稿放在网站首页，新闻中心大头条。只用新华社、人民日报稿件。管理好跟帖。
2006年8月15日11时23分 网管办

请各网再添加以下关键词：大锅接收器 、大锅、 卫星大锅 、电视接收锅、 电视锅 、无锅接收器、 无锅卫星接收器、 卫星锅 、小耳朵卫星天线、 卫星天线安装，请将所有要求屏蔽的关键词做到搜索无结果。
2006年8月18日09时14分 网管办

关于张戎著《毛泽东不为人知的故事》的消息一律删除!
2006年8月18日17时23分 网管办

请在论坛内查并找删除〈关于要求立即解除对许志永博士羁押的声明〉的帖文。
2006年8月18日19时58分 网管办

有关北京市瑞博时代文化中心组织编写《泣血的春天》一书相关事宜不传播不报道，各搜索引擎将”北京市瑞博时代文化中心”、《泣血的春天》设关键词屏蔽

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on December 3, 2012 (here).

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The Chinese-language edition of “Mao: The Unknown Story” by Chinese writer Jung Chang and her husband was originally scheduled to be released in May. Recently, the news came out that the project has been aborted. The chairman of Yuanliou Publishing Company Wang Jung-Wen announced that he has abandoned the effort to publish the traditional and simplified character versions of the book.

When the English-language version of “Mao: The Unknown Story” came out, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists in Europe and America. It was translated in French, German, Russian and Japanese. Even President George W. Bush said that he has read the book, and the new Germany chancellor Angela Merkel talked about the book when she visited the United States. But many of the points of view in the book also led to huge debates, as many historians and sinologists in Europe and America including Yale University history professor Jonathan Spence (in the New York Review of Books) all wrote to point out the weak bases for many of the arguments. In the Chinese-language world, the debate between affirmation and negation is even more vigorous.

See also – London Review of Books’ book review “Jade and Plastic“; – “The inhuman touch” by the Financial Times

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I’M SO RONERY

Geremie R. Barmé

He’s Back

With the accession of Hu Jintao to the dual roles of State President and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo in 2002, many presumed that the relatively lax ideological rule of the Jiang Zemin years would continue. Ever-optimistic observers even thought that here, finally, China had a Soviet-style reformist of its own (recall putative Sino-Gorbachevs past, Qiao Shi, for example).

It was probably the 2003 commemoration of the 110th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth, and the speech that Hu Jintao made at the Great Hall of the People in December that year, that put paid to such a notion. Ten years earlier, in 1993, the party had also commemorated Mao, using the centenary to extol the virtues of Deng Xiaoping theory and the direction that the country had taken since the Cultural Revolution. In part, the authorities were also attempting to redirect the popular Mao cult that flourished from the late 1980s, especially after 1989 (a cult which had been evident in nascent form in the 1989 mass protests), an unruly outcrop of mass sentiment chronicled in my study of the ‘posthumous career’ of the Great Leader, Shades of Mao (M. E. Sharpe, 1996).

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, Professor, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University, comments on “Mao: The Unknown Story” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Alfred A. Knopf 2005.

No One Left to Dance With

” Mao danced on. One by one, as the days went by, his colleagues disappeared from the dance floor, either purged or simply having lost any appetite for fun. Eventually, Mao alone of the leaders still trod the floor.”

The part of the book I like the most (although it sports a particularly ungainly title: ‘Nixon: the Red-baiter Baited’, pp.601-13), and one that sits most comfortably with the authors’ ohmigod style of prose, is that related to the clandestine Sino-American rapprochement. Here we have two autocrats”one effective, Mao Zedong, and the other, Richard Milhouse Nixon, a mere wannabe”and their cunning enablers, Zhou Enlai and Henry Kissinger”negotiating one of the most dramatic shifts in geopolitical relations. This is readable Real-politik, comic and grim in turn. The exchanges”all readily available in other sources”are delicious, and the devil dance between the North American superpower and the People’s Republic provide the observer with dialectical delight. It is also the part of the narrative on which I am least qualified to offer an informed opinion.

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If Chairman Mao had been truly prescient, he would have located a little girl in Sichuan Province named Jung Chang and “mie jiuzu”- killed her and wiped out all her relatives to the ninth degree.

But instead that girl grew up, moved to Britain and has now written a biography of Mao that will help destroy his reputation forever. Based on a decade of meticulous interviews and archival research, this magnificent biography methodically demolishes every pillar of Mao’s claim to sympathy or legitimacy.

See also reviews of this book from the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Time Magazine. Links to more reviews are on Arts and Letters Daily. Read the first chapter of the book, via the New York Times.

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In their new book, “Mao: The Unknown Story,” Jung Chang and Jon Halliday make an impassioned case for Mao as the most monstrous tyrant ever. They argue that he was responsible for “well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other 20th-century leader,” and they argue that “he was more extreme than Hitler or Stalin” in that he envisioned a brain-dead, “completely arid society, devoid of civilization, deprived of representation of human feelings, inhabited by a herd with no sensibility, which would automatically obey his orders.”

Ms. Chang, the author of “Wild Swans,” a best-selling memoir that chronicled her family’s sufferings under Mao, and her husband, Mr. Halliday, a British historian, drew upon newly available material from secret Chinese and Soviet archives for this volume, and they interviewed hundreds of people, including intimates, colleagues and victims of Mao. Their hefty if tendentious and one-dimensional book contains a plethora of valuable new information that helps flesh out the record of devastation left by this heinous tyrant.

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A tiny widow aged 85 living in two rooms, an electric rice-cooker her only modern appliance, may be a crucial witness to a dispute involving Jung Chang, the wealthy Chinese author of the worldwide bestseller Wild Swans.

The dispute is one of many being picked up by some of the world’s most eminent scholars of modern Chinese history, who say Chang’s latest blockbuster, Mao: The Unknown Story, is a gross distortion of the records.

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Baum writes: There are enough controversial “juicy bits” in this book to keep historians busy for decades — as I’m sure they will be once the book hits the US market in October. I think it has to be taken very seriously as the most thoroughly researched and richly documented piece of synthetic scholarship yet to appear on the rise of Mao and the CCP. Yet at the same time, it remains frustratingly monochromatic in its dismissal of Mao as a ruthless, manipulative, backstabbing, blood-soaked bandit with no redeeming human qualities (renqing) whatsoever — a man who readily (and repeatedly) sent his own troops to certain slaughter, had his closest comrades tortured and killed, and displayed nothing but disdain for the peasants he professed to lead.

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A revealing book has just been published about a closed and secretive East Asian country that devotes a huge portion of its budget to developing nuclear weapons, even as millions of its people starve to death…

Readers should be forgiven for guessing that the book in question concerns North Korea, the hereditary Marxist dictatorship that is frequently described as the world’s most bizarre state. But readers who reached that conclusion, however logically, would have been wrong. The thick and heavily researched book in question is “Mao: The Unknown Story,” by Jung Chang.

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