{"id":126527,"date":"2011-11-09T23:05:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T06:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=126527"},"modified":"2011-11-09T23:05:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T06:05:50","slug":"ten-awkward-questions-to-ask-crazy-crab-cartoonist-who-challenges-china%e2%80%99s-great-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2011\/11\/ten-awkward-questions-to-ask-crazy-crab-cartoonist-who-challenges-china%e2%80%99s-great-firewall\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Awkward Questions to Ask Crazy Crab, Cartoonist who Challenges China\u2019s Great Firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"
The political cartoonist known as “Crazy Crab,” who published a series of cartoons known as Hexie Farm, has gotten a lot of attention recently for his sharp, satirical drawings which take on censorship, propaganda, and dictatorships around the world. “Hexie” literally means “river crab”<\/a> but is also a homonym for “harmony,” a term employed by government propagandists to justify a crackdown on dissent. <\/p>\n The cartoonist, who does not publicly reveal his real name, also launched the Dark Glasses: Portrait<\/a> campaign to show support for activist Chen Guangcheng, who has been held under a particularly stringent form of house arrest in Shandong with his family. “Hexie Farm” appears in a recent list of terms that have been banned on Sina Weibo search<\/a>, but the cartoons are still widely dispersed online. Some of his cartoons have been translated and posted on CDT, including this one mocking Fang Binxing, the Father of the Great Firewall<\/a>. More of his cartoons can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n