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Viral Content<\/a>\u00a0is a new CDT series introducing terms coined and used by Chinese netizens<\/a> during the 2019-2020 COVID-19 outbreak. These terms include both subversive critiques of government policies and nationalistic support of them. Similar terms are being compiled and translated at\u00a0China Digital Space<\/a>, CDT\u2019s bilingual wiki, as we expand it beyond the\u00a0Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon<\/a>\u00a0to include\u00a0short biographies<\/a>\u00a0of people pushing for change in China,\u00a0topical resource pages<\/a>, and\u00a0special projects<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Gratitude<\/h3>\n
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“Thanks for digging my grave, man!” (Source: CDS<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

g\u01cen’\u0113n<\/em>\u00a0\u611f\u6069<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

At a video meeting of the Novel Coronavirus Epidemic Prevention and Control Command on the evening of March 6, newly stationed Hubei Provincial Party Standing Committee member and Wuhan Party Secretary Wang Zhonglin touted “gratitude education” for the people of Wuhan<\/a>. <\/strong>At that time, the city had been under lockdown for 43 days and had seen 49,871 confirmed cases and 2,349 deaths.<\/p>\n

We must undertake gratitude education throughout the city, so that the populace is grateful to the General Secretary and to the Communist Party, listens to the Party, follows the Party, and forms strong positive energy<\/a>… The people of Wuhan are heroic people. They are also people who know how to be grateful. [Chinese<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many in Wuhan were\u00a0infuriated to hear that they were supposed to be “grateful”<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for the government’s gross mismanagement of the outbreak, from\u00a0suppressing warnings from doctors who identified the first cases<\/a>\u00a0to heavy-handed\u00a0lockdowns, like the one in Hubei that effectively quarantined over 50 million<\/a>\u00a0people:<\/p>\n

@G***\u5468: What can I say? I’m grateful I haven’t been killed, I guess<\/p>\n

@\u5c0f***2: Thank you, Master, for your extraordinary kindness<\/p>\n

@m***g: Grateful, I’m not so sure, but I do\u00a0wish the best for eight generations of your ancestors<\/a><\/p>\n

@\u5367***w:\u00a0even the destruction is a blessing<\/a>\u00a0[Chinese<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The backlash forced Wuhan’s official newspaper to\u00a0withdraw coverage<\/a>\u00a0of Wang’s remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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