How Ordinary Chinese Are Talking, And Fighting, Back
Enlarge Frank Langfitt/NPR Authorities in Hunan province sentenced Tang Hui to 18 months in a re-education through labor camp after she repeatedly complained about the way police investigated the case of her daughter's kidnapping and forced prostitution. An uproar on Weibo, China's answer to Twitter, pushed authorities to free Tang a week and a half later. Frank Langfitt/NPR Authorities in Hunan province sentenced Tang Hui to 18 months in a re-education through labor camp after she repeatedly complained about the way police investigated the case of her daughter's kidnapping and forced prostitution. An uproar on Weibo, China's answer to Twitter, pushed authorities to free Tang a week and a half later. Never have so many Chinese people spoken so freely than on Weibo, China's answer to Twitter. Just four years old, the series of microblog services now has more than 400 million users.
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Overall Sentiment: -0.030263
Relevance: 0.799002
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| 0 | "Weibo had a very big impact on my situation because our local government tried to cover up this case and not let the public know," she says. ... |
| 0.011649 | "Weibo had a very big impact on my situation because our local government tried to cover up this case and not let the public know," she says. "But this time, people around China and even around the world found out they put me in labor camp. And the local government couldn't resist so many people's power." |
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Tang
Overall Sentiment: -0.158576
Relevance: 0.739653
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| -0.208113 | "He said if you cry, I am going to go kill your mom. I know where your mother's business is and I know your mother," Tang recalls. ... |
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Tang Hui
Overall Sentiment: -0.114931
Relevance: 0.543904
Richard Sears
Overall Sentiment: -0.0781295
Relevance: 0.388319
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| -0.0523286 | "[The authorities] confiscated my passport. I found myself with 10 days to get out of the country. At that point, I figured I would have to go home and never come back to China," he says. ... |
| -0.432814 | "Without Weibo, this would have been impossible," Sears says. ... |
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Michael Anti
Overall Sentiment: 0.0113209
Relevance: 0.280905
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| 0.170097 | "Chinese have a longtime myth that the emperor is good, all the thugs are local. So, that myth is important to keep the regime's legitimacy," Anti says. ... |
| 0.144948 | "Chinese have a longtime myth that the emperor is good, all the thugs are local. So, that myth is important to keep the regime's legitimacy," Anti says. "I think Weibo justice is a showcase for the government to tell the people [that] the emperor ... is still good." |
| 0.023894 | "You can joke about Bo Xilai and Chongqing city, about everything. Weibo became a very convenient platform," Anti says. ... |
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Bo Xilai
Overall Sentiment: 0.0595784
Relevance: 0.254525
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Overall Sentiment: 0.0790632
Relevance: 0.235881
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| -0.01767 | "Before the emergence of Weibo, local people actually had limited channels to try to solve their problems. Weibo is kind of pressure politics on local government officials," he says. ... |
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Isaac Mao
Overall Sentiment: -0.197478
Relevance: 0.23326
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| -0.359526 | Isaac Mao, one of China's first bloggers: "Weibo is the battleground between the authority and freedom-thinking people." |
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Hu Yong
Overall Sentiment: 0.0291578
Relevance: 0.210796
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| 0.017778 | "Any local news can immediately become national news," says Hu Yong, ... |
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Country: China
Overall Sentiment: -0.0468154
Relevance: 0.696609
Facility: labor camp
Overall Sentiment: -0.165036
Relevance: 0.484122
City: Beijing
Overall Sentiment: -0.0422795
Relevance: 0.341423
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StateOrCounty: Hunan
Overall Sentiment: 0.025873
Relevance: 0.321327
Organization: central government
Overall Sentiment: 0.0959747
Relevance: 0.340916
Organization: Communist Party
Overall Sentiment: 0.124582
Relevance: 0.324769
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Company: China Central Television
Overall Sentiment: 0
Relevance: 0.301724
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How Ordinary Chinese Are Talking, And Fighting, Back
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Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, is changing the way the Chinese communicate and has become a major source of news. Its more than 300 million users are, among other things, using it to criticize government policies, stop official injustice and help ordinary people — but only up to a point.
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