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A fake confession about the fake tigerPosted by Joel Martinsen, November 29, 2007 4:40 PM
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However, shortly thereafter the following appeared on a Tianya comment thread:
The Sina blog post was taken down at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Guan Ke has maintained that the photos are genuine. So has Zhu Julong, vice-director of the forestry department. Zhu revealed in an interview with a fairly self-righteous Oriental Morning Post reporter earlier this week just how much is riding on the outcome of the investigation, and why there are still people who refuse to believe the tiger was faked:
The stubbornness of Zhou, Zhu, and Guan inspired one netizen to coin a new four-character idiom. One of the characters in Zhou Zhenglong's name is 龙, "dragon," and there are countless idioms that combine dragons and tigers (think of the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for example). The clever commenter came up with, 正龙拍虎 "zhèng lóng pāi hǔ", which can be read as something like "correct dragon, slapping tiger" or "Zhenglong photographs a tiger." Here's the proposed definition:
The coinage apparently comes from a Netease thread (here are the highlights from the News Sewer blog), but it's popped up in a number of other places. Your correspondent came across the piece in a comment made to a cnBeta thread reporting that Zhou Zhenglong is demanding 400,000 yuan from Netease for releasing 40 of his photos on the internet. Where could this story possibly go next? Links and Sources
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