Fun With Chinese
If you’re chatting in Chinese on weibo, the enormously popular network of microblogs that make up China’s version to Twitter, and you mention, for instance, an obituary (fùgào) of a friend or public figure, you are going to find the word blocked.
Why? Nobody knows for sure, unless it was because of the false reporting of the death of former President Jia…
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