Wang Lili, a 52-year-old journalist working at Tongzhou Times for 4 years, got fired by his company merely because of a picture he shot and published in which the proprietor of Tongzhou is making a work report in People’s Congress. According to bloggerQian Liexian[zh], the official statement about Wang’s dismissal is: “His photo distorted the spirit of congress and made the proprietor acting like pleading guilty, which generated a very bad political effect.” Wang Lili hitherto hasn’t found his job.
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March 2008
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March 2, 2008
‘Political accident’ derived from a photo
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March 2, 2008
Nanjie Village, a small village in Henan Province and once the so-called ‘red billionaire village’ and ‘Republic of Chairman Mao’, is recently revealed by Chinese media that it is totally a phoney. Changping[zh] compares it with the fake tiger photo last year arguing that it indicates the bankruptcy of planned economic system and the extreme left ideology.
