标题: China Crafts a Pro-Beijing Image for Nelson Mandela [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 12-12-2013 13:33 标题: China Crafts a Pro-Beijing Image for Nelson Mandela Simon Denyer, China Crafts a Pro-Beijing Image for Nelson Mandela. Washington Post, Dec 12, 2013.
washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/12/12/china-crafts-a-pro-beijing-image-for-nelson-mandela/
Quote:
"The instructions from China’s propaganda ministry to local journalists spelled it out in detail: when reporting on the funeral of Nelson Mandela, no mention should be made about his views on human rights and democracy. No mention should be made, of course, of Mandela’s relationship with the Dalai Lama, or of his links with Taiwan, and no reports on his personal, married life, according to a copy of the notice seen by The Washington Post.
"But the former South African president, the nationalist Global Times newspaper argued on Wednesday, was definitely not to be compared to China’s jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, the fifth anniversary of whose imprisonment fell in the same week as Mandela’s funeral. Western media were wrong to cast Liu as China’s Mandela, it argued.
"Mandela met the Dalai Lama once, in 1996, and tried, but failed, to maintain diplomatic relations with both China and Taiwan while president.
Note: “'Old friend?' another [weibo] user called Akay Tongxue mocked. 'He pursued justice, fairness and freedom. Does he have anything to do with you? Don’t blow your own trumpet.'”
(a) Blow Your Own Trumpet. The Phrase Finder, undated www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/68800.html
("Act in a boastful, self-promoting manner")
(b) I can only imagine the original (in Chinese) would be 不要吹牛皮.