{"id":151084,"date":"2013-02-20T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=151084"},"modified":"2013-02-20T17:36:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T01:36:35","slug":"word-of-the-week-expensive-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/02\/word-of-the-week-expensive-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Week: Expensive Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The\u00a0<a title=\"Posts tagged with word of the week\" href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/word-of-the-week\/\" rel=\"tag\">Word of the Week<\/a>\u00a0comes from China Digital Space\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/space\/Introduction_to_the_Grass-Mud_Horse_Lexicon\">Grass-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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/02\/word-of-the-week-expensive-country\/expensive_country\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-151085\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-151085\" src=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Expensive_country.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Expensive_country.png 300w, https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Expensive_country-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Expensive_country-70x70.png 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/space\/Expensive_country\">\u8d35\u56fd (gu\u00ec gu\u00f3): expensive country <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sarcastic reference to China. This term was popularized because of discontent over high prices; <em>gui guo<\/em> is a country in which basic needs like housing, fuel, power, and healthcare are all too costly.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gui<\/em> is also the honorific form of \u201cyour\u201d; <em>gui guo,<\/em> literally \u201cyour honorable country,\u201d is often used in diplomatic speech. Using <em>gui guo<\/em> in reference to China separates the speaker from his country, in opposition to \u6211\u56fd w\u01d2 gu\u00f3, \u201cour country.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/01\/in-chinas-cyberspace-dissent-speaks-code\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Xiao Qiang and Perry Link explain<\/a> that in this turn of phrase, netizens imply that \u201cthe state that belongs to you rulers, not to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. These are the words of China\u2019s online \u201cresistance discourse,\u201d used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness. \u8d35\u56fd (gu\u00ec gu\u00f3): expensive country A sarcastic reference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":151085,"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":[99,14748,14744,5,4202],"tags":[15153],"class_list":["post-151084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-gmh","category-level-2-article","category-society","category-translation","tag-word-of-the-week","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Word of the Week: Expensive Country<\/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\/2013\/02\/word-of-the-week-expensive-country\/\" \/>\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: Expensive Country\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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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