{"id":140970,"date":"2012-07-31T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=140970"},"modified":"2012-07-31T20:32:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T03:32:55","slug":"hexie-farm-%e8%9f%b9%e5%86%9c%e5%9c%ba-the-great-wave-off-zhongnanhai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/07\/hexie-farm-%e8%9f%b9%e5%86%9c%e5%9c%ba-the-great-wave-off-zhongnanhai\/","title":{"rendered":"Hexie Farm (\u87f9\u519c\u573a): The Great Wave Off Zhongnanhai"},"content":{"rendered":"
For his latest contribution to his CDT series, cartoonist\u00a0Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm<\/a>\u00a0finds inspiration in the wood-block print The Great Wave off Kanagawa <\/a>by Japanese artist Hokusai. Responding both to the recent Beijing floods<\/a> and the riots over a planned pipeline in Qidong, Jiangsu<\/a>, Crazy Crab portrays the voices of the Chinese people as a huge wave. In this cartoon, past, current and future leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, Deng Xiaopeng, Mao Zedong) are sitting in a dragon boat. The caption from Chairman Mao refers to the Beijing government’s declaration that the 7.21 flood was a natural disaster. (In the past, the CCP also regarded the Great Chinese Famine<\/a> as a natural disaster.) However, in Crazy Crab’s words, in the Internet age, a regime which depends on lying and propaganda is under the shadow of netizens’ voices.<\/p>\n The Great Wave Off Zhongnanhai<\/strong>, by Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm for CDT.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read more about\u00a0Hexie Farm\u2019s CDT series<\/a>, including a Q&A with the anonymous cartoonist, and see\u00a0all cartoons so far in the series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For his latest contribution to his CDT series, cartoonist\u00a0Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm\u00a0finds inspiration in the wood-block print The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Japanese artist Hokusai. Responding both to the recent Beijing floods and the riots over a planned pipeline in Qidong, Jiangsu, Crazy Crab portrays the voices of the Chinese people as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"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":[99,34,7,14745,14746,100,5],"tags":[15458,15120,1356,4667,15470],"class_list":["post-140970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-human-rights","category-information-revolution","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","tag-beijing-flood-2012","tag-hexie-farm","tag-online-activism","tag-online-public-opinion","tag-qidong","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n