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Phrase of the Week: Hard Times Subdue the Party

The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and 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.

 jiān shí kè gòng 艰时克共

Reverse reading of a phrase regularly used by state media since 2008.  In 2018, netizens discovered the phrase contains a “very