红派壹号 (hóng pài yī hào): red pad
Red pad. (爱活网)
The Chinese Communist Party’s answer to the iPad. Introduced in January 2012, the Red Pad was designed for Party cadres, cost approximately twice as much as the iPad, and included applications to keep the user up-to-date with the latest Party directives. After netizens vigorously mocked of the device, advertisements and media reports were pulled.
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The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness.
