{"id":179954,"date":"2014-12-17T13:05:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T21:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=179954"},"modified":"2014-12-17T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T21:05:18","slug":"word-week-death-hide-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/12\/word-week-death-hide-seek\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Week: (Death by) Hide-and-Seek"},"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

\u8eb2\u732b\u732b\uff08\u6b7b\uff09(du\u01d2 m\u0101om\u0101o (s\u01d0)): (death by) hide-and-seek<\/a><\/p>\n

\"image001\"<\/a>

Prison hide-and-seek competition. (Kuang Biao)<\/p><\/div>\n

Death in police custody under suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n

In 2009, farmer Li Qiaoming died while in detention<\/a> for illegal logging. The prison authorities claimed that Li died of a head injury sustained while playing hide-and-seek with other inmates. Netizens balked, saying they suspected Li had instead been beaten to death by the police.<\/p>\n

To assuage online anger, the provincial authorities asked for volunteers for an inspection of the prison. Fifteen inspectors were \u201crandomly selected\u201d from a pool of about 1,000. But the inspection backfired when the public learned that the \u201cvolunteers\u201d were former employees of state-run media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The \u201chide-and-seek incident\u201d (\u8eb2\u732b\u732b\u4e8b\u4ef6 du\u01d2 m\u0101om\u0101o sh\u00ecji\u00e0n) now symbolizes cover-ups of police brutality.<\/p>\n

Sample Usage:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u5a92\u4f53\u4eba\u4efb\u4e1c\u6770: Hunan: Suspect Dies at Public Security Bureau, Police Say He \u201cDied in His Sleep\u201d<\/p>\n

\u6e56\u5357\uff1a\u5acc\u72af\u516c\u5b89\u5c40\u8eab\u4ea1 \u8b66\u65b9\u79f0\u7cfb\u201c\u7761\u6b7b\u7684\u201d<\/p>\n

\u674e\u5e84: Died in his sleep? After death by face washing, death by hide-and-seek, death by meal, and death by drinking water, a new way of dying. (October 16, 2014)<\/p>\n

\u7761\u89c9\u6b7b\uff1f\u7ee7\u6d17\u8138\u6b7b\u3001\u8eb2\u732b\u732b\u6b7b\u3001\u5403\u996d\u6b7b\u3001\u559d\u6c34\u6b7b\u540e\u7684\u65b0\u6b7b\u6cd5\u3002 [Chinese<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See also death by drinking boiled water<\/a>, hang oneself<\/a>, death by nightmare<\/a>, and \u201csuffocation by quilt<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\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":"

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