{"id":178829,"date":"2014-11-05T13:07:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=178829"},"modified":"2016-08-15T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T21:30:53","slug":"foreign-hostile-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Scapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon<\/a>, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and 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

\u5883\u5916\uff08\u654c\u5bf9\uff09\u52bf\u529b (j\u00ecngw\u00e0i (d\u00eddu\u00ec) sh\u00ecli): foreign (hostile) forces<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\u5883\u5916\u52bf\u529b21\"<\/a>

\u201cI found them! I found them! I found the forebears of the foreign forces!\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Catch-all scapegoat for any thought or action that does not conform with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) doctrine. The central government has blamed \u201cforeign forces,\u201d sometimes called \u201cforeign hostile forces,\u201d for orchestrating the 1989 protests<\/a>, stoking the Hong Kong protests of 2014<\/a>, and causing \u201cideological problems\u201d at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Netizens have co-opted \u201cforeign forces\u201d to satirize the Chinese state\u2019s relationship with foreign countries. And when homegrown movements arise, like the Southern Weekly protests of 2013, Internet users will remark onhow \u201cbusy\u201d the foreign forces must be<\/a> [Chinese].<\/p>\n

Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u8521\u54e504: The APEC summit makes one thing clear: the higher-ups use the so-called \u201cforeign hostile forces\u201d as special-order enemies to push shitizens<\/a> around, but then see them as\u00a0sugar daddies<\/a> [for themselves]<\/a>. (November 5, 2014)<\/p>\n

APEC\u4f1a\u8bae\u4f7f\u6211\u4eec\u770b\u6e05\u4e00\u4ef6\u4e8b\uff1a\u6240\u8c13\u7684\u201c\u5883\u5916\u654c\u5bf9\u52bf\u529b\u201d\u662f\u4e0a\u5c42\u7ed9\u5c41\u6c11\u4eec\u5b9a\u5236\u7684\u7279\u4f9b\u654c\u4eba\uff0c\u800c\u4e0a\u5c42\u5219\u89c6\u201c\u5883\u5916\u654c\u5bf9\u52bf\u529b\u201d\u4e3a\u5e72\u7239\u3002 [Chinese<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\u8349\u6ce5\u9a6c-red\"<\/a>Want to learn more subversive netizen slang? Check out <\/em>Decoding the Chinese Internet: A Glossary of Political Slang<\/a>. Available for $2.99 in the Kindle, Google Play, and iTunes stores. All proceeds from the sale of this eBook support China Digital Times.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and 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. \u5883\u5916\uff08\u654c\u5bf9\uff09\u52bf\u529b (j\u00ecngw\u00e0i (d\u00eddu\u00ec) sh\u00ecli): foreign (hostile) forces Catch-all scapegoat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":178830,"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":[99,116,14748,14744,14745,14746,100,5,4202],"tags":[17249,690,15153],"class_list":["post-178829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-world","category-gmh","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","category-translation","tag-foreign-hostile-forces","tag-propaganda","tag-word-of-the-week","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nScapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces<\/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\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and 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. \u5883\u5916\uff08\u654c\u5bf9\uff09\u52bf\u529b (j\u00ecngw\u00e0i (d\u00eddu\u00ec) sh\u00ecli): foreign (hostile) forces Catch-all scapegoat […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/\" \/>\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=\"2014-11-05T21:07:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-08-15T21:30:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/\u5883\u5916\u52bf\u529b21.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"590\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"447\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anne Henochowicz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/annemhdc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anne Henochowicz\" \/>\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\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Anne Henochowicz\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/78e227d3f5ef630ce75a048986e920c0\"},\"headline\":\"Scapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-11-05T21:07:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-08-15T21:30:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/\"},\"wordCount\":248,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/\u5883\u5916\u52bf\u529b21.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"foreign hostile forces\",\"propaganda\",\"word of the week\"],\"articleSection\":[\"CDT Highlights\",\"China & the World\",\"Grass-Mud Horse Discourse\",\"Level 2 Article\",\"Level 3 Article\",\"Level 4 Article\",\"Politics\",\"Society\",\"Translation\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/\",\"name\":\"Scapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/\u5883\u5916\u52bf\u529b21.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-11-05T21:07:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-08-15T21:30:53+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/\u5883\u5916\u52bf\u529b21.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/\u5883\u5916\u52bf\u529b21.jpg\",\"width\":590,\"height\":447},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Scapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces\"}]},{\"@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\/78e227d3f5ef630ce75a048986e920c0\",\"name\":\"Anne Henochowicz\",\"description\":\"Anne Henochowicz was the Translations Coordinator at China Digital Times.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/annemhdc\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/author\/fionasmith\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Scapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces","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\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Scapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces","og_description":"Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and 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. \u5883\u5916\uff08\u654c\u5bf9\uff09\u52bf\u529b (j\u00ecngw\u00e0i (d\u00eddu\u00ec) sh\u00ecli): foreign (hostile) forces Catch-all scapegoat […]","og_url":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/","og_site_name":"China Digital Times (CDT)","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes","article_published_time":"2014-11-05T21:07:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-08-15T21:30:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":590,"height":447,"url":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/\u5883\u5916\u52bf\u529b21.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Anne Henochowicz","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/annemhdc","twitter_site":"@cdt","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Anne Henochowicz","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/"},"author":{"name":"Anne Henochowicz","@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/78e227d3f5ef630ce75a048986e920c0"},"headline":"Scapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces","datePublished":"2014-11-05T21:07:59+00:00","dateModified":"2016-08-15T21:30:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/"},"wordCount":248,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/\u5883\u5916\u52bf\u529b21.jpg","keywords":["foreign hostile forces","propaganda","word of the week"],"articleSection":["CDT Highlights","China & the World","Grass-Mud Horse Discourse","Level 2 Article","Level 3 Article","Level 4 Article","Politics","Society","Translation"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/","url":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/","name":"Scapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/\u5883\u5916\u52bf\u529b21.jpg","datePublished":"2014-11-05T21:07:59+00:00","dateModified":"2016-08-15T21:30:53+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/\u5883\u5916\u52bf\u529b21.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/\u5883\u5916\u52bf\u529b21.jpg","width":590,"height":447},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/11\/foreign-hostile-forces\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Scapegoat of the Week: Foreign (Hostile) Forces"}]},{"@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\/78e227d3f5ef630ce75a048986e920c0","name":"Anne Henochowicz","description":"Anne Henochowicz was the Translations Coordinator at China Digital Times.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/annemhdc"],"url":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/author\/fionasmith\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178829","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\/991"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}