{"id":237454,"date":"2022-01-25T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T06:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=237454"},"modified":"2022-01-28T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:54:53","slug":"translation-backlash-over-officials-warning-against-new-year-malicious-homecomings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2022\/01\/translation-backlash-over-officials-warning-against-new-year-malicious-homecomings\/","title":{"rendered":"Translation: Backlash Over Official’s Warning Against New Year \u201cMalicious Homecomings\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Chinese New Year holiday approaches, social media is buzzing with \u201cmalicious\u201d comments about \u201cmalicious\u201d activities like \u201cmalicious homecomings.\u201d This miasma of malice materialized on January 20 thanks to a <\/span>viral video clip<\/span><\/a> of Dong Hong, county magistrate of Dancheng county in Henan province, warning that residents returning to his county from medium and high COVID risk areas would be subject to quarantine followed by immediate arrest, even if they could show a vaccination certificate or proof of a negative nucleic-acid COVID test taken within the previous 48 hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Responding to public outrage over his words, Dong Hong attempted to calm the situation by claiming that important context had been edited out of the clip (maliciously, perhaps)\u2014he had actually said that people who \u201crefuse to be dissuaded and maliciously return to their hometowns\u201d would be quarantined and then detained. His clarification only provoked further public outcry, as netizens began riffing on the phrase \u201cmalicious homecoming\u201d and expanding it to include other so-called \u201cmalicious\u201d activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CDT Chinese has collected <\/span>some netizen comments<\/strong><\/a> about the controversy, translated here:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u5c01\u534e\u7edd\u4f73Alex\uff1aI go home for New Year and they fucking call it a “malicious homecoming.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u65e0\u654c\u5c0f\u5a18\u5b50-biubiubiu\uff1aMalicious petition, malicious conjecture, malicious rumor, malicious speech, malicious breathing, malicious living.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u5934\u79c3_____________\uff1aAfter maliciously demanding our unpaid wages, we maliciously return to our hometowns.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u534e\u9686\u6240-\u7ecf\u592985588\uff1aHow can it be considered a “malicious homecoming” if you have a vaccination certificate and proof of a negative nucleic-acid test within the last 48 hours? If you can’t be dissuaded from coming home, you’ll be detained? What law allows that? And now the county magistrate is self-righteously claiming that they edited out the part where he said, \u201crefuse to be dissuaded and maliciously return to their hometowns?”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u723d\u723d\u9762TCBY\uff1aI’m maliciously commenting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u53f6\u8363\u6dfbalsdrnst\uff1aSomeday we’ll defeat COVID, but I’m afraid we\u2019ll never rid ourselves of the “bureaucratic virus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u591a\u4e91\u8f6c\u66742010\uff1aThe pandemic has made the incompetence of some local officials crystal clear, hahaha.<\/span><\/p>\n

B\u9762\u7684\u83e0\u841d\uff1aWhat, now going home is being classed as either “malicious” or “well-intentioned”? ? ?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u4e91\u548c\u5c71\u7684\u5f7c\u7aef23\uff1aWhat kind of country doesn’t let folks return to their hometowns? [<\/span>Chinese<\/strong><\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The following day, print and television state media chimed in: editorials in the <\/span>People\u2019s Daily<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>China Daily<\/span><\/a>, and on <\/span>CCTV<\/span><\/a> criticized Dong Hong and other local officials for taking pandemic controls to extremes, and reiterated the importance of allowing people to return to their hometowns to celebrate Chinese New Year. Yet there was scant mention in state media of the competing pressures that drive local governments to such extremes, such as <\/span>punishment of some local officials<\/span><\/a> for allowing <\/span>COVID outbreaks to spiral out of control<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>Phoebe Zhang of the South China Morning Post detailed some of the state media responses<\/strong><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

On Sunday, a social media post by state news agency Xinhua said trips to hometowns were justified and in no way malicious.<\/span><\/p>\n

State broadcaster CCTV said in a commentary on Friday that such incidents showed that local governments were afraid of making a mistake and taking responsibility for it, causing them to follow one-size-fits-all policies.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does \u2018maliciously return home\u2019 even mean?\u201d it said. \u201cWhat\u2019s the standard, who makes the call and what\u2019s the legal basis for quarantine and detention?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

[…] China has punished officials in various cities for mismanagement during the pandemic. Last month, 26 officials from Xian were disciplined for a lax response and mismanagement of a quarantine hotel blamed for a Covid-19 outbreak that prompted a lockdown of the city\u2019s 13 million residents. [<\/span>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was not the only recent case of a locality trying to dissuade its residents from returning. On January 15, a town in Shaanxi province announced <\/span>an incentive system for villages within the township that manage to dissuade residents from returning<\/strong><\/a>\u2014the top three villages would each receive 1000 yuan, and the bottom three villages would each be fined 1000 yuan:<\/span><\/p>\n

A notice urging residents of Yankou township in Xixiang county, Shaanxi province, not to return to their hometown for Chinese New Year is attracting attention. The notice, issued on January 15, 2022, states that township and village cadres, local police officers and public security, and the village Communist Party secretary should first call residents living outside of the area and attempt to dissuade them from returning. Those who insist on returning home will receive follow-up calls from the mayor and the township Communist Party committee secretary. The notice also introduced a ranked incentive system for this “dissuasion work” in each village and local community. The government of Yankou township confirmed that the notice was genuine, and said that it was intended to lighten the load of local epidemic prevention and quarantine work.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following netizen comments have been collected from the internet by CDT Chinese editors:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u54c7\u54c8\u54c81000-767\uff1aThis is just adding more layers of people you have to report to, wherever you go.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u4e94\u5341\u516d\u500b\u6c11\u65cf\u58f9\u5bb6\u4eb2\uff1aThe country lets you go back home. The province asks you to think it over before you come home. The city asks you to seriously consider whether it is necessary to come home. The county tells you straight up not to come home. The village says, “GTFO.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u95fb\u63a787514\uff1a This is lazy governance, imposing a “one-size-fits-all” policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

nomonstersinthesea: Whoever came up with this policy isn’t lazy, they’re just plain bad. [<\/span>Chinese<\/strong><\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a now-deleted article that has been archived by CDT Chinese, WeChat user <\/span>@\u4e00\u4e18\u4e07\u58d1 discussed <\/span>the double standards that allow officials to classify certain actions as \u201cmalicious,\u201d summing it up thus<\/strong><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

We say our intentions are good, but say others have \u201cmalicious\u201d intentions. Our mistakes are unintentional, but the mistakes of others are intentional. This malleable use of \u201cintent\u201d is ideological in nature. [<\/span>Chinese<\/strong><\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Xu Lin<\/span><\/a>, a writer associated with the <\/span>Independent Chinese PEN Center<\/span><\/a>, captured the zeitgeist of \u201cmalicious homecoming\u201d in <\/span>a poem republished by CDT Chinese and translated below<\/strong><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Malice<\/strong><\/p>\n

As New Year approaches<\/span>
\nI’ve returned to my hometown, with malice<\/span>
\nAre you still in some distant city<\/span>
\nMaliciously demanding your unpaid wages?<\/span>
\nSome folks file malicious lawsuits<\/span>
\nOthers, malicious petitions<\/span>
\nSome foreign-owned factories offer<\/span>
\nMaliciously extravagant severance pay<\/span>
\nSome slackers maliciously lie flat<\/span>
\nSome couples maliciously refuse to have children<\/span>
\nThe internet is full of malicious questions<\/span>
\nMalicious expos\u00e9s<\/span>
\nMalicious retweets<\/span>
\nMalicious comments<\/span>
\nMalicious likes<\/span>
\nThe world is full of malice<\/span>
\nEven the wind blows with ill intent<\/span>
\nOf course, there are also a lot of good intentions:<\/span>
\nDeleting posts is well-intentioned<\/span>
\nBlocking accounts is well-intentioned<\/span>
\nQuarantine and detention are well-intentioned<\/span>
\nAs are fines and inflation<\/span>
\nEven a good beating<\/span>
\nComes with the best of intentions<\/span>
\nIn sum:<\/span>
\nIf they say it’s malicious, it is<\/span>
\nIf they say it’s well-intentioned, it is<\/span>
\nI don’t want to die of malice<\/span>
\nAnd I don’t want to live on good intentions<\/span>
\nBut I have no choice\u2014<\/span>
\nThough I might be better off dead,<\/span>
\nI will continue to live out of spite.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Xu Lin<\/span><\/p>\n

January 20, 2022 [<\/span>Chinese<\/strong><\/a>]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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