{"id":136541,"date":"2012-05-19T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T16:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=136541"},"modified":"2012-05-19T09:07:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T16:07:24","slug":"hexie-farm-%e8%9f%b9%e5%86%9c%e5%9c%ba-the-kiss-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/05\/hexie-farm-%e8%9f%b9%e5%86%9c%e5%9c%ba-the-kiss-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hexie Farm (\u87f9\u519c\u573a ): The Kiss of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his latest contribution to his series for CDT, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm celebrates the news that activist Chen Guangcheng is reportedly on a flight headed for the U.S. after his long saga involving a dangerous escape from de facto house arrest, refuge in the U.S. embassy, and then two weeks in a hospital in Beijing while his fate was decided. When Chen spoke with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton upon his departure from the embassy, it was reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-17920910\">he told her, &#8220;I want to kiss you!&#8221;<\/a> Later, <a href=\"http:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2012\/05\/03\/chen-guangcheng-us-embassy.php\">Chen clarified that he had said, &#8220;I want to see you.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-136542\" title=\"cdt2012-b14\" src=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/cdt2012-b14-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" \/>Read more about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/02\/introducing-the-hexie-farm-%E8%9F%B9%E5%86%9C%E5%9C%BA-cdt-series\/\">Hexie Farm\u2019s CDT series<\/a>, including a Q&amp;A with the anonymous cartoonist, and see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/hexie-farm\">all cartoons so far in the series<\/a>.\u00a0Hexie Farm also runs the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ichenguangcheng.blogspot.com\/\">Dark Glasses. Portrait website<\/a>\u00a0in support of\u00a0<a title=\"Posts tagged with Chen Guangcheng\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/chen-guangcheng\/\" rel=\"tag\">Chen Guangcheng<\/a>. More of his cartoons featuring Chen Guangcheng are part of a Foreign Policy Magazine slideshow. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/05\/02\/citizen_chen\">9 Ways of Looking at Chen<\/a>.\u201d<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n[CDT owns the copyright for all cartoons in the\u00a0<a title=\"Posts tagged with hexie farm\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/hexie-farm\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hexie Farm<\/a>\u00a0CDT series. 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