{"id":168741,"date":"2014-02-09T22:04:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T06:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=168741"},"modified":"2014-04-03T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T20:26:20","slug":"week-cdt-february-7-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week on CDT, February 7, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xi Jinping<\/a> has emphasized the fight against <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/official-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\">official corruption<\/a> since taking office last year, curtailing banquets and other indulgences while vowing to root out rotten \u201ctigers and flies\u201d at all levels of government. But the recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/new-citizens-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">prosecution and sentencing of members of the New Citizens Movement, who have called for officials to publicly disclose their assets<\/a>, belies Xi\u2019s commitment to cleaning up government. CDT, in partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, republished <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/work-regulations-leading-party-government-cadre-promotions-appointments\/\" target=\"_blank\">government issued provisions aimed\u00a0at heightening\u00a0cadre virtue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the web, much personal information is stored remotely and subject to pervasive state surveillance. In the aftermath of activist and New Citizen Movement founder <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/xu-zhiyong\/\" target=\"_blank\">Xu Zhiyong<\/a>&#8216;s sentencing, <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/river-crabbed\/\" target=\"_blank\">netizens reflect on the elusiveness of privacy<\/a>. While their own lives are exposed, the assets of public officials remain impervious\u00a0to public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013,\u00a0human rights lawyer Xiao Guozhen prayed with President Obama and the U.S. Congress at the 61st annual National\u00a0Prayer Breakfast. In<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/interview-human-rights-lawyer-xiao-guozhen\/\" target=\"_blank\"> a CDT interview<\/a>, Xiao\u00a0reflects on how her faith inspires her work\u00a0to defend\u00a0human rights in China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/slideshow-life-peoples-commune-1975\/\" target=\"_blank\">A collection of photos by Michael Rank<\/a> offers a rare glimpse into daily life on the People\u2019s Communes in rural 1970&#8217;s China. The photos, both beautiful and\u00a0anguished, mark a period of massive political upheaval in China: the\u00a0Cultural Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese-to-Martian app on Baidu helps Netizens convert recognizable words into cryptic script\u00a0and vice versa. How do you write \u201cdon&#8217;t mention it\u201d (\u4e0d\u8981\u8bf4 b\u00fa y\u00e0o shu\u014d) in Martian? <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/script-week-martian\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u00a0and find out.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Xi Jinping has emphasized the fight against official corruption since taking office last year, curtailing banquets and other indulgences while vowing to root out rotten \u201ctigers and flies\u201d at all levels of government. But the recent\u00a0prosecution and sentencing of members of the New Citizens Movement, who have called for officials to publicly disclose their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":168588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[14745,14746,100,5],"tags":[16433,7506,6329,3894,16819,3604],"class_list":["post-168741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","tag-cdt-this-week","tag-government-corruption","tag-internet-surveillance","tag-peoples-communes","tag-xi-anti-corruption-campaign","tag-xu-zhiyong","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Week on CDT, February 7, 2014<\/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\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Week on CDT, February 7, 2014\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Xi Jinping has emphasized the fight against official corruption since taking office last year, curtailing banquets and other indulgences while vowing to root out rotten \u201ctigers and flies\u201d at all levels of government. But the recent\u00a0prosecution and sentencing of members of the New Citizens Movement, who have called for officials to publicly disclose their [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-10T06:04:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-04-03T20:26:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/makingnoodles.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"421\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Meredith Godwin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Meredith Godwin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Meredith Godwin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/9145f5b9c272d76d32ffd56a7eb29698\"},\"headline\":\"This Week on CDT, February 7, 2014\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-10T06:04:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-04-03T20:26:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/\"},\"wordCount\":256,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/makingnoodles.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"cdt this week\",\"government corruption\",\"Internet surveillance\",\"people's communes\",\"Xi anti-corruption campaign\",\"Xu Zhiyong\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Level 3 Article\",\"Level 4 Article\",\"Politics\",\"Society\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/\",\"name\":\"This Week on CDT, February 7, 2014\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/makingnoodles.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-10T06:04:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-04-03T20:26:20+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/makingnoodles.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/makingnoodles.jpg\",\"width\":421,\"height\":640,\"caption\":\"Making noodles\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"This Week on CDT, February 7, 2014\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/\",\"name\":\"China Digital Times (CDT)\",\"description\":\"Covering China from Cyberspace\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\",\"name\":\"China Digital Times\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.jpg\",\"width\":186,\"height\":177,\"caption\":\"China Digital Times\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/cdt\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/9145f5b9c272d76d32ffd56a7eb29698\",\"name\":\"Meredith Godwin\",\"description\":\"Meredith Godwin is the CDT Program Administrator. She previously wrote for CDT as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley where she earned her bachelors in Asian Studies. She recently completed her masters in China Studies from the University of Washington and now resides in the Bay Area.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/author\/meredith-godwin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"This Week on CDT, February 7, 2014","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"This Week on CDT, February 7, 2014","og_description":"President Xi Jinping has emphasized the fight against official corruption since taking office last year, curtailing banquets and other indulgences while vowing to root out rotten \u201ctigers and flies\u201d at all levels of government. But the recent\u00a0prosecution and sentencing of members of the New Citizens Movement, who have called for officials to publicly disclose their [&hellip;]","og_url":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/","og_site_name":"China Digital Times (CDT)","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes","article_published_time":"2014-02-10T06:04:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-04-03T20:26:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":421,"height":640,"url":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/makingnoodles.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Meredith Godwin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@cdt","twitter_site":"@cdt","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Meredith Godwin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/"},"author":{"name":"Meredith Godwin","@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/9145f5b9c272d76d32ffd56a7eb29698"},"headline":"This Week on CDT, February 7, 2014","datePublished":"2014-02-10T06:04:39+00:00","dateModified":"2014-04-03T20:26:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/"},"wordCount":256,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/makingnoodles.jpg","keywords":["cdt this week","government corruption","Internet surveillance","people's communes","Xi anti-corruption campaign","Xu Zhiyong"],"articleSection":["Level 3 Article","Level 4 Article","Politics","Society"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/","url":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/","name":"This Week on CDT, February 7, 2014","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/makingnoodles.jpg","datePublished":"2014-02-10T06:04:39+00:00","dateModified":"2014-04-03T20:26:20+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/makingnoodles.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/makingnoodles.jpg","width":421,"height":640,"caption":"Making noodles"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-7-2014\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"This Week on CDT, February 7, 2014"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#website","url":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/","name":"China Digital Times (CDT)","description":"Covering China from Cyberspace","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization","name":"China Digital Times","url":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.jpg","width":186,"height":177,"caption":"China Digital Times"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes","https:\/\/x.com\/cdt"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/9145f5b9c272d76d32ffd56a7eb29698","name":"Meredith Godwin","description":"Meredith Godwin is the CDT Program Administrator. She previously wrote for CDT as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley where she earned her bachelors in Asian Studies. She recently completed her masters in China Studies from the University of Washington and now resides in the Bay Area.","url":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/author\/meredith-godwin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}