Hong Kong's Oriental Daily reported (in translation):
The Central Propaganda Department has designated two minefields for media and publishers in Mainland China: Macro Polo Bridge Incident [1937] and Anti-Rightist Movement [1957]. According to a source familiar with the situation, the department in charge of ideology has a clear direction: Anti-Rightist Movement is a definite no-no; Marco Polo Bridge Incident must be handled very cautiously.
aha... so these are the first anniversaries to be targeted under the new censorship rules.
It's not surprising that they'd target the Anti-rightist Movement, since that's really when so many of the current corruption issues became institutionalised, from the reporting of bogus numbers to appease superior cadres to the graft that held Party members as first among equals.
Posted by: Tom - 大肚腩 | January 21, 2007 at 08:56 AM