Thank you very much for coming to.

The second year this sake on a mission
of the global media France welcome

to his event that is organized by

faculty team of the schools
of mother in languages and

the school of literature me the UN
communication we're very proud

of peace and forward that we
have been putting together for

the past two years in our previous
festival we hot four events

each event related to
a language from our school so

we have participation from
the German the Chinese Spanish and

French unit this year we are.

A fifth event from that
is organized by our

colleague from literature media and
communications so welcome again.

We would like to begin by saying a couple
of words of why we put this event together

basically we're trying to create
good conversations the bating on

campus about some of the challenges that
we're facing in the twenty first century

our field is the field
of stalling languages so

it is through language it is through
culture that we bring these conversations

and we offer these programming
in order to create soem

exchange of ideas about the challenges
that we face in the planet today

the festival is called the global
media face the wall so

stay not really across languages and
cultures so sustainability is the main.

Guiding concept of these festival and
we welcome you and

would like to Course you to
participate in this program this year

the program we already have our first
screening last week it was a screening of

our Germany two Syrians on a water
journey which was on March.

Twenty ninth two they were going to
have a presentation all of the works

are why political comics in China
we will continue our programming

on Wednesday with the screening all
swathed we will half French filmmaker.

And he's going to be this causing
his film about teenagers growing

up in Paris we continue
next week with a film.

Entitle The cried over the forest
it is one of the many productions

created by India you know
communities in Bolivia we will bring

We will have also be sitting com Our

friend from Iran Sam he may
ask Who is that I rector or

in the ME the OP project and
we will come clued the seafront

on April eighteenth with
the short films by bus he might be

an exploration of space and
place in the global world.

These ceasing an event that has taken
also a load of forward we're very happy.

To work on it many people.

I've contributed to the event so I would
like to take this opportunity to thank

first of all all the members of
the faculty team who are putting this

event together Dr Gene knew from
trying these Dr John Wall's man

from Germany Stephanie will art from
French and Dr Greg sin man from L.

and C.

I would also like to thank our sponsors.

The sun even that is.

Sponsored and
supported by the strategic plan advice or

a group grant we also have the support

of the school of more than
languages the school of.

The richer media and communication.

The Center for
Serve learn sustain and Racey and

their son center of sustainable
business we also have.

Grade sponsored in our larger

Atlanta community which is
the China Research Center so

we're very happy to have the support

I would like to thank everyone for
coming to the event I know I'm going to

be passing the mike to you thank you so
much for coming.

OK thank you thank you so

just now the opening remark was
made a by Professor Juan Carlos.

Greer He's associate professor of Spanish
in the school modern languages and

also the chair of the festival organizing
committee I like to take this opportunity

to thank my colleague Carlos for
your hard work and the leadership

in organizing the whole festival and
also to secure grants.

Bad strategic plan advisory
school pool funding or

else we wouldn't make this
event possible thank you and

of course I just thank you all everyone
to come we got overwhelming responses.

And we really appreciate that and

due to the rule capacity we had to close
our sign up letter year last Saturday.

So next time we'll try
to reserve a bigger.

And a sorry for
those who has to stand there.

Well Yet this is our second a year of
the global media festival in the last

year we invited the Chinese
independent filmmaker Mr wants.

On and showed his to recent
a film class to China and

we discussed are those the environmental
and social issues related to

the theme of assistant ability in this
year we're trying to do something

different focused on the political
sustainability in China.

As you may know the lack of speech
free speech is the Saturday.

Reality in China in
the particularly now it's under.

Present and she.

Etiology called control into Internet
censorship or has being much tightened.

So take a very recent example
after the C.C.P. announced

to abolish term limits on the presidency
originally the presidency is ten year

limit but now they abolished that
probably you heard by the news right.

The now Spencer was made to.

AIDS February twenty eighth and
it seems then the words like a dumb T.

boarded the plane while censored
on the way for the Chinese.

Of Twitter because it
a sounds like a dumb T.

or Santa that's wrong.

And that there are many many other
examples of the new censored or

sent sensitive awards so
I hope this event is a timely discussion

on political system stability or
instability and how the Chinese artist.

Responded to the rich and the political
censorship in the crate you away.

So today it's my great pleasure to
introduce Michelle quite misleading.

The Chinese artist who has to
struggle in the internet since

almost every day you can read.

A brief bio here we prepared
a short video presentation

to introduce the artist
artwork my student.

Helped.

Make the video.

And made a video exclusively for
the event.

So today the world premier.

Please enjoy.

What he's done to China.

I don't really.

Hear.

You.

Are Really.

So many times.

Contemporary trying particularly.

You.

Know.

If I wasn't around.

Here and.

My.

British.

Far.

Right.

Are all.

Pretty well call home.

But there was that and
some of those are in Asian agreement.

So where are you right and this one.

Was the right Chris I heard.

And there.

Was No.

This strategy is perhaps backwards and
I did point out that knowledge for

fictional creature grasslands which
was our on line early two thousand I.

Need this is the worst is written in
three innocuous transferred orally

it's pronunciation tower
which is identical except to.

A pretty fresh state anything in it and
he ate a lot at the time.

The leading figure in this state internet
censorship is the con artist we shall

back west coming I have
a chance to culture the US for

a long time in my own thoughts
we shall all for education and

interest but she went on to purchase
a computer she has lied and

said a lot is it in two thousand and six
hundred sixteen other names flowers and

just how much time and I would say he was
he looked intently Chinas our clocks.

Lead them from his transformative
power along a new knowledge.

For a grasp of time so we first order

of the blogosphere is the only area
with the outside world to learn.

What I would call.

The middle of his blog walk
down a little picture with.

Me on.

And I robbers or hold on.

Thank you his strong opinions on
certain subjects we hope he's really.

Shocking to me.

But he is sitting in our house just to
he consistently says John I have more

to say boxing drugs although you know this
is only what needs to happen I feel it

means when it's still beating and
all of us a strong picture will I be all

over the world to parents it's
OK now the national interest and

it is offering to be original
the better miles per.

Hour Congress reason we should this
period ask the character didn't it

teach contemporary twenty years.

In the discourtesy between what
is expected and what is at.

Least I have no interest running
on the best constant cards

in the English silence
while we Chinese Hans and.

There are stylists social and
political news for

us usually teach something that God and
competent response

how he missed initially the serious social
and political hierarchy least robotics

is alive branch of local national
international issues because really it's.

All these cartoons of who's goes who does
not believe he's the White House and

then says come on the son
of a person's story really.

Is the more the first heard
of the mines one hundred.

Zillion officers pulling.

Their cars here boards all go.

Off on our major road.

If you don't know this and this you know.

This first of all intrigue in any form
your own DAVID Of the hundreds of

thousands are made by these folks here.

Trying that is the drug of those.

In the burbs and prayers.

Were wearing and they're really free or.

Cheap the freedom to him was.

A reverse this is a very.

Order but for those watching

this one is also really used to
bury this guy on the brand name.

Which is about how.

The proxy servers the Chinese
citizens used to climb over.

And that their very words allowed
if I didn't remove the shows now or

for the other skin or a piece of.

Each issue.

In the right one last
in Iraq the shock for

you because he's under
the protection of the gold in your

reference to going to shield Roger
from trying to blow the clock because.

I misinterpreted I said slump over
to us and now we published a comic

a long title Louella to John and
so on net and

stop our elite he was a child he's
hospitalized we want fictional

characters that is created by man
downtowns signature in response to use.

One of these comics do you
think police and thousands and

hundreds invented the word tests
which generally nice characteristic

in the party scene we saw a chance
to work for us shockwave.

Which seems to glow suspect
change your first six because it

can also be construed
as very right in front.

With the right humor I'm just the person
who the sense of achievement built exists

and that's kind of the anger in
me that much as it is cause.

It's taking down the lives
teaching passion.

Leith even bigger Cyrus whether
you're in the creek you find there's

was rather this adverse reaction to
the initiation of those who revise.

And are not just those reforms
that will work on trying.

For example the ending for The Wall or

came in the opera or hard thing or
the there will be one mile.

And the first row of the open the bar for

a shot which means he will be
mobbed by the simple vertical line

this proposal will be your response
neutron versus the virtual community and

more than any recent on the cleverness of
the device Shari followed the proposal

while the poor people of new characters
and immediately goes on his blog about.

The unity of the.

Graphic is crucial for the word good.

It is even certain that this
character represents the fever.

Going on in the main central
committee of the Communist Party

where she's a party we're going to.

Play this major there's very little
media that's the Asian young

it's sort of competition dot com
John that combines the mission and

the first for me with the final roster.

Of the not illegitimate
syllable of the phone off Mars

night system it's very similar to this for
the young people.

This exact.

In fact she used to see him back which
used to represent the CIA I'm scared

Chinese this is transforming he translated
from lawyer prince of Egypt for

example son by the way past and
son which translates to the great god

of the Three Rivers became silent
John Paston shall the great god repeat.

The next chapter stands for him out.

Fifty cents a word of it to satirize
is that he was hired to raise

your arm stashing osses the going rate for
well it turns pointless fifty cents or

goes in our bank this is the office
it is hard to distinguish here.

Or to my own investments.

This is yours to represent.

Which means the most.

Leverage with which we're trying and
there were Muses who were hired

where forced the militia to be produced
as well as many uses for land but.

The lives of these forced the machines
usually belonged to someone who came would

translate to all the really
big people who used to enjoy

over this guy's story was trying have been
rather tears in the morning he was his.

English is so good no word well
I should say you were with or

he would were transferred first it
was coined by the playoffs it is and.

We probably are really used to
the devil pretty and smile was the.

Response to satirise a little girl's
shoulder and increasing actually on

her knee and keep this state in
the family and the list and I'm certain.

It's not the are published where
people comment on the first stimulus

that has become the biggest and
the titles here's what you are watching

STATE The first thing all contain
her that she's feeling on a grid and

second panel in her wall in red intrudes
into the frame and knocks on the editor.

In the third you know that yard has been
rendered world which is learning and

we're firing we're all enemies
which is the last thought

which means gratitude which your
Sunday our only vicious dog a top

side healer Chinese very good artist
who lives as the conference symbols of

free powers pretty easily
read the state hour and

walk into the giant symbol of power
speaking almost about who lives and

numerous times I'm explosion in the real
estate involvement in temporary.

Recently in two thousand seen leaving
the church in total all says were

equally little but in the single friend
we see here character who's the soul and

sharing the need of this character
as a whole is simply the she

just isn't enough friend so
little day as ours is.

It is obvious that this new
character plays with her

job I ever listened to in
terrorist groups with a child.

To Charlie Sheen's to true story
arc he has recently become one of

the trailers use to just pierce China's
rich and powerful family's needs John

suggests that since all jars had
said credit there is a nominal

cost to do is not to brag but
to just leave us however and

jar into Diana's shows he had
probably asked which can mean target

as a sign of things in crafts here aren't
consistent interesting questions where.

In truth my brain is embedded in
the wrong tree simultaneously so.

You're in.

For an interview when you think
there's only hope you're wrong and

the final result OK.

So.

You're expressed the medicine.

You were.

Using the right wasn't sure
very precisely what it was all.

Of.

These are all.

Sort of very few modern baby so if.

You know what.

I think I make what's what's the.

First thing.

Was so you got everyone.

Well.

I mean the United States well so to say
it's not make Well when I was little.

Cannot tell where it is you
said what she make will and

I have no idea how to get there
how other than you think.

He said These don't like it don't eat you
want both you know what the thing to the.

Possible to make Will Later
someone told me you dig

a hole in the ground and keep digging into
the end of the world and then pop up and

I will be the United States but as it was
it's all but of course this time I travel

on a plane a missile Well that's it
the shelling by day quotes ya so

well that's right I come from
the other side of the planet China

well so you know some twenty three Tong.

China is a country where the cost
of survival is very high.

Into the wait you up into the wall

of the character on the left is great
which means expensive and honorable and

the character on the right is country
weasel most of the week when the.

Thought that the title will stop.

Jones how important this and
why is it caught quick war it means.

It means that you have to pay a fairly
high price to live an ordinary and

normal life in China.

His son Tom young when.

I am a cartoonist but

the thing I'm best at is to create
art with characters you meet.

Because the Chinese characters
are pictographic you can hand.

Each character are indeed
a picture of what you

will call songs old school
scene that when this is.

Not you know that with what I combine
different words to create new characters

to express my political opinions so.

As we all know the power of
the party in power in China

is the Chinese Communist Party so that.

Will be done so the core

party is the central committee of the
party so this is the European states and

young we have party on the left
Central Committee on the right.

So younger will CDATA change the.

The party.

Huge amount of power so
into the sea so you thought that's.

On the left we have a promotion on
the right we have power and authority and

combine them together
it's totalitarian regime.

Thomas and.

They won and the party even wants to
take over control of the universe so

I mean they see what
you're going to see so.

On the left it's supervising
Contro on the right it's universe

you're used to the leader of the challenge
so you could listen when the sun's in.

Who's at home it seems the party has such
a strong presence of power in China and

many Chinese came to believe that
the party is there to protect them so

you see and sometimes it's a woman and

she could be done and that's why
even though we don't have the habit

of praying before a meal is we actually
can thank the country instead.

So that's.

Been what's Yahtzee media deep and
this is the discrepancy of

power between an ordinary Chinese and
the state so I mean to the wall.

On the left we have country and
on the right we have home.

Yellow Yat be what John yok wants
the whole project in so you know.

As we can see when the family was crushed
by the state all that is left is graves.

Of Fun moved east well
drawn means grave and it's.

With the top move into a different
place what's the other.

Way in that.

This the power of the state is
overwhelming enough to destroy any

ordinary Chinese family what you
see couples in their own going and

I am I'm on I am one of
the ordinary Chinese.

Yeah a cartoonist or
maybe some of those yet

I've never attended college What's
this done up on in this year so.

All I have is eight years of education and

then I dropped out even when
you went to the what you had.

Lost.

Because I believe all the education system
is to produce screws for the larger

machine of the country just as out that
you made a screw like that will pull

you totally down the last I don't want to
be one of those groups where you know.

I didn't even attend and attend any art
college so you might see what soil come to

us on it but needless to what says that
by far everything that I learned I use at

work I taught myself and
she said What do you mean that's the whole

Actually when I was at school I was
a good student when I see you when could.

I was also the class representative

of the Chinese Kleis will
see what I'm going to go to.

The if that made sense because
it's a very Chinese thing.

You will simply when.

I have been very sensitive to words and

characters yes you want
what you know what.

Teacher actually like me a lot although
I often missed the deadline for

turning into a turn and you know what to
do it but I caught them because all my

exercise books were used for drawing those
who will use how will you be eliciting but

I'm pretty sure that I
don't want to be one.

Of the main sit down and hope that even if

even if it means I'm one of good quality
so you will have to teach you a lot and

that's why I doubt that she of
eight you know you could teach.

Young.

So when that woman quit Well it seems
there is one word that is crucial to every

Chinese which happens to be the word
that I have never mastered once when she

says it's what Toyota mean he says it is a
word that is unique to Chinese culture so

yes in that you would see that you go to
the salon although you can find it and

English dictionary once enough so it.

Will be cool.

But that's a woman who we think.

Will win but just like any ordinary
Chinese can drink Coca-Cola but

that doesn't mean he or she is fully aware
of the American culture behind it so

you make when you need somebody else so
that's why and my be difficult for

Americans to truly
understand the word when she

you know it was a playfield to
eat I'd say that one seat so

you would send us yourself and billions
of hope what the so what the hell.

Because the Chinese
society as primarily built

on going she I lived a pretty
depressing life after I left school

didn't seem quite used to
the wealth lost in a city.

Who didn't want.

That yet until the day I found Internet

Well he says someone's got
to get this is out there

this is how I was feeling the first
time I was surfing on the Internet.

What if I sense you want
you as you put it but

soon I realized something is wrong here.

Was So Ho since you could show you what I
was actually on is more like an internet

you know you know we see a lot so what the
because there are a few websites that that

I can never have access to will see in
the instant Obama look on a suit will.

This is you know well I am connected
to the internet but I didn't actually

gain any real freedom Well what do
you call a good deal you don't chop

what sits in between me and
the international Internet is a war.

For the time when I saw its
use it prominent so that.

For most of the Chinese it doesn't really
matter you and Thomas you know that.

Those states are thoughts.

Because all the online services
that they need in their life

are actually available inside
the wall now when it's a window.

That's why and not many Chinese have
thought about pushing down the wall.

That's when so many of them don't even
realize the existence of this war

tunnel was C.E.O. with again but

I am the one who yearn for
freedom one seems so that's.

The.

Sun I understand that the war
not only blocks websites

as it says yeah but
also blocks the freedom of thoughts to

think jewel girl son and told she OK so

here we have the character means think and

here by replacing parts of it this
is replaced by parts of the wall and

in a meadow you have the delete button and
on the right you have bars.

Now you say.

So about ten years ago I was the one
who didn't want that so you.

Know wait.

Wait who is the highest official in
charge of Chinese Internet once said.

Maybe you'll want to listen so.

Yell at them that China does
not have online censorship and

the netizens of China are free
what you don't see but

what suits you yeah I don't think that is
the reality you see what moderates what

deep in that sense of fun and
here comes the first political sarcasm

cartoon that I ever drawn five years I
want a good book up with something and

it was published on the blog today or
so since it was only let you go.

And from that moment on I
became a political cartoonist.

Decided to.

Sit in this is you know and
then it's a story of ten years long.

You walk on and take.

Up will still face you.

I would say so I just dug my way out
of from the other side of the planet

Just wait a second it's flying from
the other side of the planet so

what's it until it hits you all so

I would just tell you a couple of
the story I mean the incident will

do you know what the B.L.O. a lot seat so
when you get the what people could.

See as two thousand and seven I registered
for an entire independent website and

became an independent blogger and quite
well what then put a couple copacetic

lines in I won a prize I
won the champion of one of

the competition among bloggers I
said it's M.P.C. that I post and.

The prize for
the winner is the macro approach well.

This is what the.

You when I tell you now says I.

Just say yes.

The old computer that I was working
on is a second hand of mine and

it only is worth a thousand and two on
which roughly one hundred fifty dollars.

I put the and
the people what I saw to D.C.

and you can imagine how much
that map book surprises me.

On someone you don't see once you.

Win one month by the turn
that in two thousand and

eight one of the Web portal net do use
one of the Web portal in China net

invited me to become their cartoon
columnist I used to go to see one both.

Of them since there are severe
restrictions on how

the news were reported in China so you see
even stop interrupting look totally and.

You learned that you thought so
it is common fact the comment section

that turned out to be a great platform for
netizens to express their opinions

while most even some of
the people in the yellin thought.

The comment section is
like the underground pipes

of the true news rhetoric.

I seem to be in.

Chunks.

And they collectively
came up with a couple

several fictional characters
come in if I miss it you.

Why you don't use up one of
them as if you're a craft

you cut some fool with a pool yet
one of them is a civil servant.

So what that's holding it and
one of them is a really poor guy.

Well but you see I see that again
will what's home my point and

will I breathe in our brief life into
them by making cartoon stories about.

Conceit you're looking at a scene.

And that's how.

My client and I and I.

And I create my artwork based on the most
trending news I mean sometimes when.

It's a woman will this book is
published in two thousand and

nine by Hong Kong Chinese university and
it is called Fierce bloggers of China it's

open sort of what you mean that's what
the editor is a well known author Chen go.

And that's what he is
the author of a well known book

the earthquake of tongues so when.

You pull cook on this book
introduced the public to

a handful of well known bloggers at the
time that's you know it's so it's yeah.

Yeah you'll see it's all some of them are
writers some of them are intellectually

and some of them are artists
one thousand citizens.

That I was living at a very small
town say good in the book or some in.

The city that you know but I have a big
voice through the instruments of cartoons.

In the same year I was also invited to
the mainstream media picking news will

take us human mind planets and nine I set
up a column but you could get so you.

Still beat but

it was shut down within just one
month due to this sarcastic piece so.

Here's the background story
that's it's all done.

So you can see that by.

And what I think this is.

Who is in charge of the counterparts
of F.D.A. in China in two thousand.

Nine stepped down due to an incident
of poisonous baby formula or

so yes it's not self doubt some of those
who don't will handle you know the sun

Some are the substitute for

protein melamine actually would
cause kidney stones a mom babies.

To see get them yes although the toads and
those who volunteered to investigate this

event without government's approval were
jail that's the only means you'll in so

the total of the school after
stepping down in two thousand and

nine a year later this
official was reassigned and

this is solved on the council and.

And he was in charge of.

Illegal publication and
I've seen it had an eating the it would.

Be.

Actually for he was in charge of
the Commission Against of sanity and.

Giving him guns.

OK Things two thousand and
ten my blog was blocked.

It's only intended so that some to a B.

Chung So C.N.N..

The Chinese caught it
being great firewall it

which means there is a risk tightening
a restriction on your freedom of speech

seemed to be friends with
the will could you know.

I was there and

an NG as there is an increasing number of
blogs that are being shut down in the.

Space left for freedom of speech is
actually shrinking hold I Well that will

be a dead walk when the summit and
that's why I moved most of my artwork

to Twitter to what I saw it's equally go
you didn't see all of that the fun for

me it is a place of freedom of speech yes.

It's also a refugee camp for
the night is and so with all means I saw.

YELLIN sense there are many Chinese
netizens coming to Twitter and evading

the censorship but what's in full that you
know isn't how so it's in this whole deal.

Will.

Be done now summits every time
when the policy is tightening

up Chinese netizens will flock to
Twitter to express their opinions

to someone be young just like refugees.

Peter the woman I saw even.

Twitter means escape which actually
sounds fanatically to escape in China.

Once it made you know your lunch was you
know what just inside she she Bowie.

But they're still there or

worse that would touch on the nerve
of this answering machine.

The times it seems.

And the political the political
policeman can always find a way

to find you well yes it's unique and
I am one of them so

since you know this is really
amazing you want to go.

Wolf you know want to look and been

because all my artwork are not available
in China that's what's up with yes.

To see it but
still you can tell the Chinese government

can hear those noise and sit in and
see in the show and on the book and

they were not happy about
it we were only when.

They call your nonsense hot see how
the fungus is some if you ask me what is

the best way to fight cyber censorship
what the species homes will you believe.

My answer is keep working
never stop you would you and

will I think you know since I thought
Elise's someone if you ask me what

is the biggest effort I ever made
to fight censorship What did I.

Want to allow a city to sell so the.

My answer would be I travel on a plane for
more than ten hours flying from one side

of one side of the planet to the other so
when you come by yeah.

You could go you Nuncio that was from a
place where there is no freedom of speech

to a place where there is so little one.

And say something that I truly want
to say so since it seemed the line so

what is difficult about that so
you can see that the funds.

Go down can't walk so the difficult part
is that I have to go back in two days.

So you know.

That's I want to end my speech
with one important character so

this is the value into this is
a character created for the leaders.

Told.

Me which means approval agree I don't want
to you know fabulous is that the C.E.O.

that you learn in China if you
want to express your own opinion.

Lindahl.

You need to get the approval
from your leaders photo the.

Fact otherwise you will get yourself
into trouble so you will go to.

There for
I want to officially disclaiming.

That you know that everything I said
just now I don't agree with any of them.

Thank you very much thank
you very much thank you.

Thank you thank you.

Very intrigued interesting intriguing and
the thought provoking talk and

I forgot to introduce
the interpreter is Mr Sharon.

Ph D.

candidate in the school for history and
associate allergy thank you for

the superior transmission
skills of a wonderful job.

I mean like like us there I my
students and ourselves we all know

the Internet censorship in China but
we don't know much about details but.

Has shared with us a lot of insider
information and we learn a lot and

I know we have a lot of questions for.

Let's move first to our we
have interdisciplinary.

Panel before the Q.

and A.

First I'd like to think us
three scholars professors for

accepting our you might Taishan
to be to serve as a panelist or

for this event our first.

Panelist is a professor.

Her horse.

Is hard to pronounce that.

He's associate professor
of politics at all

all the stork University
professor Hershel Arcot his Ph D.

from University of Chicago he teaches
Chinese politics Asian politics and

the political development his research
interests include the Chinese local

government since Central Local relations
in the contemporary economic etiologies

So now I think it's Will it be very
interesting to hear your comments or

from the person that Chinese politics so
now welcome Professor harshly.

Thank you so much Jeanne it's a great
pleasure to be here it's great pleasure to

see you all and really a pleasure
to hear the presentation today

actually my first passion is language and
I like to study language in politics

I was one of those kids that used to
read the dictionary when I was young so

it's fascinating to see what is being done
with language and today I'm going to try

to speak quickly about language
as power both historically and

today and I'm going to play a quickly with
a bunch of dualities about language and

power if you go back to traditional
Chinese culture civilization

there was the initial distinction
between what you call civilization.

In power the when and the war and
it was decided that to govern

it was best to govern through
civilization but civilization in Chinese.

Is writing.

Writing was critical to
the exercise of power in

ancient China you think of Confucianism
you think of the Confucian

texts you think of being able to
master the texts to become a leader.

Thank you.

So on the one hand you had
writing as power then you had.

Force as Power Of course
they never gave up the force

when people didn't follow
the writing you used to force.

Second it with in writing
within When they always

distinguished between orthodoxy and
heterodoxy So

you had the john and the and
they were very clear that if you

had to be orthodox heterodoxy
were wiped out they were silent.

This to continue didn't persisted
through Chinese history so

never gave up use of force used it to
preserve not just proper riding but

Orthodox writing then of course there was
a communist revolution force came back

but quickly then you find that
you're getting the return of

when of rioting of course
you get the thoughts of.

Don't thought.

You get the thought of
the communist leaders

important part of their leading
is that they are the thinkers for

the country most recently we
have Xi Jinping thought so

these things do not go away they come back
so now of course we don't see heterodyne.

See an orthodoxy the Chinese Communists
have simplified it to correct and

wrong whether thought is junk or
will they like it straight forward so

introducing this in a nice Marxist
fashion let's have another distinction

Let's bring some Marxism in and let's talk
about the base and the superstructure

as you know if you're good Marxists
economics is the base the gene G.G. to.

That is what drives history what with
this we're getting the introduction

of computers the Internet
what do you get when you

have the change of the economic base you
get the change of the superstructure

you get the change of classes
in society what is it.

Is what changes so
you would expect with computers and

with the Internet you're going to have
changes in the superstructure well.

What happens of course is.

That's not what the current powers like
very much they do not like this new form

of communication they do not like
the new options available for people and

by the way I shouldn't say that there's a
change in class structure China today does

not recognise classes that's a dangerous
word they have strata they have.

So they wouldn't have class that could
be too dangerous for opposition so

what I very much appreciate
with all these by Neris.

What are you and.

View of history with police shall
go I what I really appreciate

is that he's coming up with
a form of contest station with

power which is not quite orthodoxy
heterodoxy what you're gay.

It is as the title indicates you're
getting a subversion it's a destabilizing

and centering of power in
the old days they would say.

But he's not just reacting he's shifting
the terrain shifting the terrain

of the powerful and
he's shifty in it by using what

was the Prague of leaders when writing and

reshaping it literally
reshaping writing so

what you're getting I love the first
political cartoon he did of the shape

shifter he's shifting the shape
of the Chinese language and

if you think of it that was the form
of authority by doing that he's

totally destabilizing what is supposed
to be at its most powerful direct.

Visible form of power I'm
thinking of the words

the French sociologist peer Board
year who writes about language

as symbolic power language as
the most ultimate form of power and

he says the words which
construct social reality

as much as they express it are the crucial
stakes of political struggle

which is a struggle to impose
the legitimate principles of visions

Chinese government would like nothing
more than its categories to be accepted

as presented the words it's grammar to
be accepted through the language and

to people work with these ideas by
rewriting the characters what's

supposed to be invisible becomes visible
what's supposed to be natural becomes

unnatural and suddenly it's like someone's
giving away the magician's secrets.

And the trick no longer.

It's such a good trick so

by changing the characters is
a powerful and fundamental for.

Challenging power by dissenter
in that it's not a counter

discourse it's questioning
discourse itself add to

that the whole humor of taking
this vocabulary and moving.

Official vocabulary and moving it into
settings which totally set it off

its foundations and bring into question
the categories and their application and

what you're finding is that
you're getting I think a new

form of contest station which is
a content station which is not simply

against but it's a form which is
subversive which is shifting the terrain

to destabilise power to go against
power means you're going to get.

You're going to get force
this way you can avoid it and

at the same time you can continue to
persist in the challenges to power so.

I'm sure that.

Was very annoying and frustrating to many
officials in China because they probably.

Don't know what to do and
they probably won the say that funny but

the truth is it is funny and

if you have to say it's not funny then you
have to explain why it isn't funny and

that's kind of like having to
explain why a joke is funny but

in reverse suddenly there's a joke
there and everyone gets it and

that tells you something
ridiculous about the situation

so very enlightening and inspiring

a good laugh too although painful laughs
recognizing the realities in China today.

And I would be curious to hear as I'm
sure others would be Benchley what

how does one maneuver
within China today love

the invention of words because how
would how would the scent to use locate

a new lexical life form they
wouldn't know to look for it.

So wondering how to
continue to exercise this

power within China with the censorship
with the great firewalls but

I really appreciate being able to come and
participate today thank you.

Thank you so much.

Professor harshly or.

Thank you for your very incisive
analysis of characters you know joint.

But yours is symbolic of
power of the language and

I think it's a very stimulating for
our for

the audience how many how many
of you are learning Chinese now.

Great so that you two OK So
after this talk after this event.

Those who are now learning Chinese
has more stronger motivation and

we have a more students and
a professors want to learn Chinese.

So OK so
now you can think about of that question.

And now our next a panelist is Dr Levy.

She is a senior lecturer
all of Chinese language and

the linguistics at Emory University Dr Lee
is a linguist and a part

of her research interests is contemporary
Chinese character art movement.

One of her popular courses at

Emory is called the Chinese
right hundred systems in Asia.

Today she would like to share
with us her research in the top.

To Chinese characters in a crate
creativity is from an English point

of view Thank you.

Thank you for
the introduction Hello everyone and

such a pleasure to be here to
ideas with you about work.

As a linguist and
someone who is interested in contemporary.

Art actually.

I am particularly intrigued
by the creation of

new characters I prepared a little
little talk about my thought about it

please allow me to to read
off the script a little bit.

And they're also if you slice
hopefully out to help me

to illustrate I was
trying to convey to you.

Well I found the characters
has created both comical and

serious in their own ways and
both you know bit of and

provocative they challenge author
these convey emotions tell stories and

build called them called sentimental
communities how do they manage to do so

much this is certainly not just
a linguistic question gins I could

doctor do in those forthcoming article
guys newly coined Chinese characters and

his comic blogging article is very well
the social political significance of his

work but I think what is at play at
a rather fundamental level is least

a strong intuition about how the Chinese
writing system works which is to question.

So how does the Chinese writing system
work and what has it got to do with

our works in fact the new
characters can be

understood as part of a search of artworks
since the late one nine hundred eighty S.

that play with Chinese characters

there are a number of ways
such play takes place but the.

Productive productive seems to
be a process that can be called

deconstruction reconstruction for
better terms.

As you well understand the Chinese writing
system is different from the Roman

alphabet in that each
individual symbol represents

in almost all cases a combination
of sound meaning and

form well each woman letter writing
in English in almost all cases

represents a combination of sound and
form with no meaning so

this added meaning dimension
makes the Chinese script and

is especially open system and
essentially open system

that does not set any limit on the number
of characters that can be created and

used the fact that one of the most
comprehensive dictionaries containing.

One hundred thousand characters.

Character forms I should say is
straightforward evidence for this point.

It is also this added meaning
dimension that offers artists.

Artists tremendous more space to create or
innovate

this is not a very scientific illustration
that I hop up here on the slide but

when it comes to the possibility of
character deconstruction you can see it

could be number one through a number three
and when it comes to possibility for

a character reconstruction number
four through a number twelve.

Or so out of the twelve possibilities
schematically seven of them

you know all of meaning so as you can see
by having this extra meaning dimension.

Compare it with a running system
like the room after a bit

the Chinese script increases
the creative possibility dramatically

the meaning dimensions proviso
a great number of additional ways for

the characters to be constructed and
reconstructed.

So when they have time to
look at just a few examples

many if you are probably already familiar
with the shootings work book from the sky.

These beautiful you print it scrolls and
books contain more than four thousand

characters there are meaningless and
soundless that the artist

has created and
hand carved onto movable wood blocks

similar to she being a second artist
I'd like to show briefly here is.

So he was nonsensical Chinese characters
of the ancient seal script or

style in his work United Nations.

What may be the most relevant to
the wise work harder is Joey in today's

new Chinese characters or seen hundreds
of the project which the artist attempts

to modernize the Chinese written
assembles by creating new characters.

According to tell you he the old
Chinese radicals are unfit for

communicating contemporary notions and

need to be updated therefore
he invented new radicals for

such concepts as computer electron
network homo sexual D.N.A..

Genetic modification digit or
independence.

So for instance here the radical for
pollution or.

Source.

Appears to be a fusion of the character
through a poison and gas and I don't have

these two characters on here but if you
can write Chinese you know what I mean.

And then.

This radical then combines with
other existing characters.

To form new characters for

example when come by with show it
water it means liquid pollution.

Vehicle or automobile it means pollution.

On the road.

And so on so the new characters as a set

capture the arches experience
of pollution in China.

Another example I can show you
here is also a set of characters.

In which he uses a character sure
I took a person as a radical for

intellectuals and this this set of
characters convey his observations

of various types of Chinese intellectuals
today intellectuals who are cynical and

aloof so-called China rotor sure fences.

Who think independently.

So the previous story the one on the top

right corner with the person has a dot
on top that according to the artist

means a person who can think independently
and that with the bottom part sure that

means to get all together means that
intellectual who can think independently.

And so on.

And of course you can see here.

On top you see two symbols for
the Chinese currency side by side and

by coincidence I also use the symbol
to indicate money right so

intellectual who places money above
everything else in this case.

So why and showing she's new
characters are both on apologetically

a political we've seen
a good number of examples so

to drive this point for the home here
are a couple more examples by telling T.

in the next like the new
character done on the left

looks like a television set with
the character yen speech on the screen so

he represents propaganda in T.V.
programs another created character.

Pronounces model.

Means culture as defined by the artist so

as the artist explains
the components sure.

The Left that means do you T or
God or supernatural.

D.T. and then on the right.

That means knife indicate the religious
and violent nature of the culture.

So.

To conclude the linguistic harder mystic.

The linguistic artistic sticks of
the Chinese script makes it possible for

the artist and for
every one of us to create new characters

however such works of creativity
take much more than simply

having the Chinese writing system at
the disposal it also takes wisdom

imagination a great sense of humor and
perhaps above or

else you know environment like
the heavily censored Internet in China

works in courage and
resilience Thank you That's

the thank you so

much for Presently I think
that's great too to situate

guy's character in the bigger context of.

Chinese characters contemporary art.

Moment.

Because as the professor said
to because Chinese character

has numerous possibility
of a reconstruction so

I would encourage the audience
in this event when you go

home maybe you want to curry to
some new Chinese characters and

then she here in the maybe we
can have another new event to

exhibit your work your our
work how about that OK.

Our last panelist days our all.

Purpose.

So you can see.

Our panel is not counting
interdisciplinary but

also across institutional.

We have scholars professors work and

trying to use in different
universities greater Atlanta and

the professor Paul Foster is associate
professor of the Chinese literature and

a popular culture in the school of
modern language is Georgia Tech he

is the author of the book
Our kill archaeology.

Our Q R Q project to prop progeny and
to the national character

discourse in twentieth century China just
now video you probably already has seen.

Is the icon of all modern Chinese
nature and makes a very exciting

next semester in fall two thousand and
No two thousand and nineteen.

Sorry eighteen.

To fall forward
Professor Foster we all for

a new course in the modern
Chinese literature so

make sure to register his course OK and
that the size of the.

DOCTOR fall.

Research interests also include
the colorful fiction martial arts film and

a popular culture so welcome.

And thank you Dr Leo.

And I would really like to
think that everybody for

the opportunity here especially the guy
who is given the great opportunity for

all of us who are learners of Chinese
language and culture to learn another

few thousand characters on top of the ones
we've already know and you can and

your know you're looking forward to that
but it's a really really good challenge

here and it's really good
challenge to to come here and

talk to you from a very different angle
from pop culture perspective Lelouch

sure mentioned soon and I want to get to.

Just a little bit a few words to say
that but first I want to say that in

pushing the boundaries of political speech
in China one is always trying to be

right on the edge of whatever's allowable
maybe not quite stepping over or

maybe pushing over a little bit
a little farther and I guess the trick

is trying to figure out how to gauge where
you are at any particular point in time.

And I cattle class have always
been walking this line China's

greatest twentieth century
cultural critic Lewson.

Author of was confronting the same type of
situation in the early twentieth century.

Now that Leo is a video
referred to Lucian and

I Q junk on the true story of our Q one
my favorite stories of modern Chinese

literature you can tell I wrote a whole
book about it I find it refreshing to see

the further analysis of the particular
character that was used their job

in this new these new characters that are.

That the guy is creating.

It was a manifestation for
the rich and the powerful in contrast

to the commoner Iraq you
particularly like the way that

I use the Chinese character for
to leave to walk or to go does so

with a little checkmark right next
to it saying you know all you said

is right you show to the way
it's right to leave so.

This is really appropriate in many
instances so whatever the rich and

the powerful say is right I guess
this is what's happening but

jello written with an X.

X.
here in the case of something is wrong

go back and look at the video on
youtube later after this is done and

this is Lisa guys point something is
wrong maybe the only recourse is for

one to zero when something
is wrong OK The other.

The other family that was written
about besides the Giles in the store

true story about Q Was the one who was
the other family that was it odds with Q.

the commoner character was surnamed C.N.N.
which twit so

much I assume is what is T N MONEY So
you're looking at the powerful

you're looking at the rich and
the money so you have to make that note

this is perhaps even more direct
critique of loose runs against

the powers that power to be at
that particular point in time and

in the end immortalized through Lucian's
pen as you can see in the in the book.

But he also has the tragic finale
Lucian writes about the Joel family and

also in Diary of a mad man quantum energy
in the first few lines of this diary.

Well for
let me say first of all this is a.

Cultural critique.

Of China's really caustic cultural
chic of Chinese traditional culture

as cannibalism in the first few lines
of this of the mad Diary of a mad man.

The Mad Man we learn is seeing
the jolly family dog looking at him

in ways that cause him
some serious paranoia.

OK so this mad man is kind of
a metaphor as I'm looking at from

a cultural pop cultural perspective for.

The critic This is the person
who has taken a step outside and

looking without the blinders
on he's a medical metaphor for

the critic arguably arguably here in
this case with the diary of a madman

with some self knowledge like
this like the author loose in.

Who's clearly sees the harsh
reality of the of the gel and

you can read China family
power structure and

gets the idea that leaving
that reality by going crazy.

At least guys check marked.

Character with the zero to leave.

Maybe the maybe.

B.
The only way to get out.

Of this conundrum.

Lucian's madman however is eventually
cured ironically returning to

the cannibalistic sanity Chinese
culture and this in a sense or

stablish is the traditional orator while
simultaneously highlighting the power of

the establishment in the record of
his diary The Diary of a bad man.

Now loosens example here
is really extreme cultural

criticism we're talking about
the teens and the twenty's and

the thirty's at this time you can
understand the political ramifications

we're not going to go into it because
we really have a lot of questions for

the show itself I'm going to
stop talking real soon but.

The later deification of
the evolution as the.

As China's modern China's
greatest writer and critic shows

that one can exist in a state of being
both critical and loyal to the culture.

Itself and to the people I want to
go a little farther here however and

put a little more kind of pop cultural
spin on this entire I Lucian and.

Together from another angle to using
again this character Joe to leave to go.

With that checkmark there in a more

balanced cultural critical perspective

we have MY the other field of study
which is martial arts fiction.

And we find character just like

Iraq who there but
not with all of those negative but

loveable characteristics that Accu
has we have a good celebration

of Chinese culture as well as the critique
that we see to the character of waste.

In work the deer in the cauldron looting.

OK so we shall bow to put it very briefly.

His best kung fu is.

So.

Right from the thirty six
stratagems we got so.

The best strategy of
the thirty six there's only

thirty six the is to get there scram.

This stratagem.

Is also the best of the Cancun
that he actually possessed

he was pretty pathetic but he had learned
one kung fu that made him able to go

and flee from his to those
who were capturing him so

someone modeled after this
character in the negative

characteristics of his otherwise
positive self we shall bow.

He was a pro Han.

Favor of restoring the ha ha ha dynasty

in this case was the Ming Dynasty and
supplanting that.

The man she dynasty.

At the same time that he was
a member of a secret society to

do this he was also the best friend
of the Ching Dynasty Emperor Kang's.

OK So we have a conundrum
another conundrum here.

Is kind of the ultimate insider so
to speak.

He's loyal to both these power centers
once again and land on the word boil.

And eventually after two thousand
pages of machinations in this long.

Work of martial arts fiction he's
able to manage this contradiction

in a righteous way without
selling out his countrymen.

Very nice so we have a balance here

with the perhaps second greatest writer or
it's arguable.

Top loose and top we can fight
that out next semester in class.

So I'm going to finish with this will have
a quick couple questions on here because

you know we're all.

Language Learners and learning so
much language from its Chinese so

much culture all the time this idea of.

I think you put it coded phrases social
politically charged lodges thems

they work to jolt the viewer out
of the common daily existence.

And give us all these connections
back to all of the kind of

the cultural things that we run into
every day that we participate and

we engage in in Chinese culture
American culture as well.

But as a student of China and Chinese
language I'm intrigued by all these new

characters that are socially politically
charged characters here they can see

in both visual graphs and
phonetics in combinations

that the audience distinctive
social political phenomenon.

Have been initially.

I have to say I gave these examples
from modern Chinese literature

to demonstrate that scathing
cultural critique such as least

alkalis has been present in
Chinese culture it's not been

absent it's even celebrated
to a great extent with.

This great giant twentieth century Chinese
author and it can have a happy ending and

if you can call being
the greatest Chinese author.

Modern had better qualify
it as being a happy ending

which I think that any of us could
aspire to would have that as a goal.

In the same way it's speaking truth
to power you know it's not a picnic.

But it'll sure put you
in some good company.

And at the very end.

I have to ask a question and

I say I want to make sure that we get
this back into the language realm.

I want to know can you give us some
insight into what makes those successful

new words that you're inventing
how you make them and

maybe from a Also from a slightly
different perspective in that.

I'm wondering did you have any I
mean it takes a lot of work to

figure out this very creative
endeavor that you're involved in.

And I'm sure it's not every single one
you come up with works you can think

of some great ideas that you can put
together and they just don't fit or

work so as a way to get to
the what makes them work so

well I want I wondering if I
mean we're all learning and

learning and learning failing learning
back again learning learning higher and

higher failing learning
all the way up again.

And having good examples in addition to
how you make the ones that work which ones

might not be successful maybe give us
an insight to why thank you very much for.

Thank you flushing.

I think a flush it has already so
out of some questions so

we are we are some of
the transition team to our Q.

and A session although that
time is already tied to we

how about we ask our three
panel just to and also.

Here to the stage and to.

And and now we have can a discussion.

With the R.T. stand to the panelists.

And if you can state for another Let's
see ten to fifteen minutes that will

have to dish us Chinese dinner
with the seven course waiting for

you so don't rush to leave.

Q So and a question.

Yes OK.

That's your question OK.

Yes feel free to ask any question now OK.

Those.

OK.

OK this is for Lisa I'll go far.

I can see it in Chinese of hopes.

But then I guess no one else knows what's
going on I'll just said in English.

OK So my question is because
you were saying about how

when there is censorship then
a whole lot of Chinese netizens

flock to Twitter so like why doesn't
the government blog Twitter.

Right like like well I don't I
don't know how that works is is

how people can flock to Twitter like why
is the government letting that happen so

I get really sad that rule in Chinese so.

It's.

Just like.

Everyone else had a question.

OK.

First of all thank you again for
coming here and you know welcome so

when I bow like I seen your comics before
so it's great to see you in person

I'm not in this one six three hour
comments and stuff on like M.O.P..

So wondering when I get They've
always been right on these websites

first thing I'm not is trying to push the
conversation in a particular direction and

have you noticed like an uptick of
that recently I do see more and

more of that these days and
because of not used as kind of.

Sort of subversive nature of
content that can be on that site

what are you afraid that sites like
that might come under the purview

of the Great Firewall at
some point in the future.

I mean sites like and he's.

Well you

know you.

Get the.

Sense they got title.

She feels some.

Comments.

Fabio and sent.

What they're against.

Expressing the action you
know what I mean if I see.

Him in.

The last.

Bite you some of some of them we'll.

See when you.

Sit up and say so
see John Kelly and the scene late.

For the kill in the Certainly.

You know when you.

Want to surprise you
some is some of the male.

If you tell.

Me something.

It's saying things such a way so
I need a woman sit down be myself but

the police will think that you're trying.

To see my easing suit so you know.

That.

She turned to me and
it's a reporter with you.

She has every right to this.

It's.

You know.

It's to the neophyte she is
this is your life I beamed up.

Every pronounced determined by me.

It was turned out so well you know that.

I have the right.

And should not.

You know something meet up.

Tom and you will you know
which one shall I the common.

Fund.

When you.

Have.

So that they can come.

Here so.

To speak.

You young tongue tied to this.

So you know that's.

A civil type.

Thing so you will say you know that's.

What's is I eat so this is so
this is what I'll be at the.

Front that was fun.

I was.

And how it was.

How people and cares.

And will most support them you know
once a woman nice to woman you're like

yes you can.

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opportunity to thank to all of our
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helped us a to make the video so
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