{"id":181618,"date":"2015-02-26T17:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T01:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=181618"},"modified":"2015-02-26T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T01:25:58","slug":"slogan-week-five-nos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/02\/slogan-week-five-nos\/","title":{"rendered":"Slogan of the Week: Five Nos"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 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

\u4e94\u4e0d\u641e (w\u01d4 b\u00f9 g\u01ceo<\/em>) five nos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Wu<\/a>

Wu Bangguo and the five nos. (Source: Weibo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Set of interdictions first presented in 2011 by then National People\u2019s Congress Standing Committee Chair Wu Bangguo in the wake of the Arab Spring:<\/p>\n

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    \n
  1. No system in which multiple parties govern in turn<\/li>\n
  2. No diversification of guiding ideologies<\/li>\n
  3. No separation of the \u201cthree powers\u201d or creation a bicameral system<\/li>\n
  4. No federalization<\/li>\n
  5. No privatization<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \n
    1. \u4e0d\u641e\u591a\u515a\u8f6e\u6d41\u6267\u653f<\/li>\n
    2. \u4e0d\u641e\u6307\u5bfc\u601d\u60f3\u591a\u5143\u5316<\/li>\n
    3. \u4e0d\u641e\u201c\u4e09\u6743\u9f0e\u7acb\u201d\u548c\u4e24\u9662\u5236<\/li>\n
    4. \u4e0d\u641e\u8054\u90a6\u5236<\/li>\n
    5. \u4e0d\u641e\u79c1\u6709\u5316<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      The five nos appeared soon after unrest in the Middle East and North Africa<\/a> inspired some in China to attempt their own \u201cJasmine Revolution\u201d<\/a> to call for liberal democracy. The government promptly\u00a0cracked down on potential demonstration sites<\/a> and detained online organizers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      \u201cFive nos\u201d was censored from Weibo search results in the run-up to the 2013 National People\u2019s Congress<\/a>. Netizens invoke the five nos to mockingly chastise those who argue for liberalization. For instance, on February 14, 2015, the businessman Ren Zhiqiang shared an essay on Weibo about his personal definition of Western values. One netizen commented, \u201cThere\u2019s no use in saying all this. One \u2018five no\u2019 and they\u2019ll shoot you down\u201d (\u8bf4\u8fd9\u4e9b\u90fd\u6ca1\u7528\uff0c\u4e00\u53e5\u4e94\u4e0d\u641e\u5c31\u628a\u4f60\u9876\u56de\u6765\u4e86<\/a>).<\/p>\n

      See also jasmine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      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":"

      The 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. \u4e94\u4e0d\u641e (w\u01d4 b\u00f9 g\u01ceo) five nos Set of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":991,"featured_media":181619,"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":[99,14748,14744,14745,14746,100,5,4202],"tags":[14751,14602,16469,690,15153,4816],"class_list":["post-181618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-gmh","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-politics","category-society","category-translation","tag-arab-spring","tag-jasmine-revolution","tag-national-peoples-congress","tag-propaganda","tag-word-of-the-week","tag-wu-bangguo","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nSlogan of the Week: Five Nos<\/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\/2015\/02\/slogan-week-five-nos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Slogan of the Week: Five Nos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 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. 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