{"id":137014,"date":"2012-05-30T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=137014"},"modified":"2012-05-29T12:48:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T19:48:23","slug":"word-of-the-week-love-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/05\/word-of-the-week-love-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Week: Love the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note: The\u00a0Word of the Week<\/a>\u00a0comes from China Digital Space\u2019s\u00a0Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon<\/a>, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China\u2019s online \u201cresistance discourse,\u201d used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you are interested in participating in this project by submitting and\/or translating terms, please contact the CDT editors at CDT [at] chinadigitaltimes [dot] net.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u7231\u672a\u6765 (\u00e0i w\u00e8il\u00e1i): Love the future<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

\u201cAi Weiwei\u201d and \u201clove the future\u201d were blocked on Weibo in April 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cLove the future<\/a>\u201d is a coded reference to Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei<\/a> (\u827e\u672a\u672a) that came into use after Ai’s detention<\/a> in April 2011. Ai\u2019s surname sounds the same as the word \u201clove\u201d in Chinese, and his given name \u201cWeiwei\u201d (\u672a\u672a) can be converted into the word \u201cfuture\u201d (\u672a\u6765) by adding two small strokes to the second character. After the phrase \u201clove the future\u201d became a cipher for Ai, \u201cfuture\u201d was for a time a sensitive word<\/a> on the Chinese Internet (see here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

One of the designers behind the iconic Bird\u2019s Nest Stadium, Ai was prominent in the art world long before he became a thorn in the Chinese government\u2019s side. He started to rankle the authorities in May 2008 when he lead a project to collect the names of children who died in the Sichuan earthquake<\/a>. Active on Twitter, he commented there in February 2011 about the calls for a \u201cjasmine revolution<\/a>\u201d in China modeled after Egypt\u2019s. Visits from the police and the destruction of his Shanghai studio in late 2010, combined with the tension in Beijing brought by the Arab Spring, lead Ai to attempt to leave for Hong Kong on April 3. He was detained while boarding his flight and disappeared for 81 days. Once back home and under surveillance, he didn\u2019t stay silent<\/a> for long.<\/p>\n

New Yorker<\/em> China correspondent Evan Osnos profiled<\/a> Ai in 2010. Edward Wong of the New York Times<\/em> wrote an account<\/a> of Ai\u2019s detention on May 26, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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If you are interested in participating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":137016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,99,116,20,14748,34,7,14744,100,5,4202],"tags":[5870,14751,6150,15153],"class_list":["post-137014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beijing-olympics-2008","category-cdt-highlights","category-world","category-culture","category-gmh","category-human-rights","category-information-revolution","category-level-2-article","category-politics","category-society","category-translation","tag-ai-weiwei","tag-arab-spring","tag-birds-nest","tag-word-of-the-week","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nWord of the Week: Love the Future<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/05\/word-of-the-week-love-the-future\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Word of the Week: Love the Future\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Editor\u2019s Note: The\u00a0Word of the Week\u00a0comes from China Digital Space\u2019s\u00a0Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. 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