Note: For 莫斯科电台 Radio Moscow, see Voice of Russia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Russia
(Radio Moscow began broadcasting in 1922, continued to broadcast until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and was renamed the World Service of the Voice of Russia)
(6) Michael Wines, China Tries to Add Cultural Clout to Economic Muscle; A government goal seems to conflict with actions against artists. New York Times, Nov 8, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/0 ... tists%20&st=cse
Quote:
"agents of the local Public Security Bureau interrogated him [Yue] about one work, a collection of peppercorns arranged to form numbers. Security officers had already photographed the piece, studied it for an entire night and consulted cryptography experts to divine its message. As they eventually discovered, the numbers were in a computer language, Unicode, spelling out five phrases that Chinese censors have banned from the results of Internet search engines.
"the notion is lost on Chinese leaders that a great culture — whether in painting, science or journalism — rests on people’s abilities to push the boundaries of creativity, no matter whom it offends.
Note:
(a) YUE Luping 岳 路平
(b) YU Jianrong 余 建荣
(c) Songzhuang 宋庄
(d) ZHANG Ming 张 鸣
(e) LIANG Xiaosheng 梁 晓声
(f) The "piece" in "say their piece" is a noun:
"OPINION, VIEW <spoke his piece>" www.m-w.com