Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Oct-Dec)
This series is a recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in...
banquets
Minitrue: No Hyping Banquets at Internet Conference
The following propaganda instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
New Rules Aim to Contain Official Extravagance
According to the PEW Research Center, official corruption is considered a “very big...
Are Xi Jinping’s Austerity Measures Working?
Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times reports that China’s free-spending government elites – and the businesses that cater to them – are feeling the squeeze under new president Xi Jinping’s austerity...
Assuring Chinese Finish Their Live Lobster Sashimi
As the government and state media push a ‘Clean Plate Campaign’ and high-end restaurants suffer through a drought of official banquet reservations, Adam Minter examines cultural attitudes behind food waste in China....
A Little Less Decoration, A Little More Action, Please
China’s new Party leadership has vowed to reject “extravagance, formalism and bureaucracy” in government—or, as The Financial Times put it, to let a hundred flowers wilt. Xinhua recounted the long list of...
Policeman’s Binge Drinking Death in China: One Official Banquet too Far?
The Christian Science Monitor reports on the death of a traffic cop in Shenzhen after excessive drinking at an official banquet: Traffic cop Chen Lusheng’s death by choking follows several similarly deadly incidents elsewhere in...
China Legislator Seeks to Criminalize Banquets
Zhao Linzhong, National People’s Congress delegate, is proposing an interesting piece of legislation. From AFP: “Public spending on eating and drinking is a waste of social assets,” Zhao Linzhong, a delegate to...
China’s Latest Crackdown: The Liquid Lunch
As Xinhua reported (and CDT translated) last August, officials in Xinyang, Henan Province have been touting the economic and social benefits the city has accrued after banning the consumption of alcohol at official banquets. The...
Days of Liquid Lunch Are Numbered
In China, lunch meetings are often a time to conduct business over food and drinks. A year after Henan officials were banned from lunchtime libations, the province’s alcohol industry is fighting back, claiming that as a...
New Drinking Songs
Political jingles are not new in China. Even in Mao’s time, powerless people at the bottom of society used jingles to express themselves (often in the form of veiled criticism, sarcasm or anger, in reaction to the...
Alcohol Ban Illegal? And Corruption a Productivity? – Great Wall Online
A new commentary from Great Wall Online provides an update on CDT’s earlier post about a new ban on alcohol at lunch for officials in the Henan Province city of Xinyang. Translated by CDT: The benefits of the ban on...
Alcohol Ban At Lunch Saves Millions, Contributes to Social Harmony – Xinhua Henan
Xinyang City Secretary reports on a rare experiment and its achievements: banning alcohol at cadres’ lunches. Benefits are multiple, and enormous. Translated from Xinhua Henan channel: An alcohol ban at lunches for all...
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