Already been harmonized, it seems. Glad I caught it before it went. Impressive video.

Brilliant video! Loved the music towards the end.

That's... pretty dark.

The fire bit seems to be a reference to the 1994 Karamay Fire... :'(

Anyone got an idea of the extent to which a video of this kind is expressing a common feeling in China? The posts I saw in response online before the harmonization was complete were quite positive--but is this a repressed general mood or an angry fringe?

The last scene reminds of last scene for let bullets fly. A great scene， especially when the carriage dishes all the rifles and ammo out. Appleseed!!!

Anyone on Kaixinwang or Duoban knows how broadly this common emotions in this video are felt. Despite the Zeitgeist being in favour of the CPC's style, even throughout the heart of the west, most Chinese think living under a nutty one party kinda sucks. Who'd a thunk it.

In China there are actually a fair number of Marxist believers of various varieties too, who are aghast at how their country has turned out.

Pardon the ideological dinosaur that I am from saying so, but hopefully as more stuff like this gets out, apologism for Chinese authoritarianism will decline, as it should for all forms of the stuff. I hope this helps to remind people that what Orwell called common decency has been hard fought and isn't a trifling matter. There are no benevolent dictatorships. The global class struggle never ends, and they know it at the top, don't let them lull you.

I blogged on this yesterday, noting that the UK arts media ought to be ashamed if they devote space to Ai Weiwei but ignore “Pi San”. Very glad to see that Tania Branigan in the Guardian picked up on your story.

Thanks, Danwei, for linking to the WSJ piece, and kudos to the WSJ for getting a telephone interview with Pi San. Now, assuming that Hutoon and Pi San still haven’t yet been visited, doesn’t that raise some questions? Either the PSB will do something about the people behind this video, or they won’t. If they do, then what seems on a quick reading of that interview like the almost naively blase attitude of a (young?) cartoonist will prove to be a dangerous miscalculation of how the PSB still treats these things; if they don’t, then how are we to read the changing ability or willingness of the PSB to react to what by any reasonable yardstick is seditious? Any thoughts?

If this thread isn't getting a little stale, one more post related to how China is reacting to problems such as corruption...

Heard this morning how a "zero rupee note" is being used in India to shame corrupt officials who ask for bribes for services that should be free. Is my idea for a "zero yuan note" a great idea or a blindingly stupid one? If blindingly stupid, what does that tell us about how Chinese corruption differs from Indian?

Anybody in Danweiguo have any thoughts?

Let me make an appeal to everyone to stop using the word harmonization. Oh, it was once cute as a sarcasm. But those who are responsible for carrying harmonization would much rather you use that euphemistic word--however acerbic the tone in which it is pronounced or typed--than to call the spade a spade. Use a word that carries opprobrium; then the irony and sarcasm can be dispensed with. I'm sorry, however, that I can't propose anything better than suppression or repression as alternative to the insipid censorship. I'd be grateful to hear anyone's suggestions.

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