This spoof of the People’s Daily, taken from a now-deleted Sina microblog post, recasts the party organ as Pimin Ribao (), which we’ll translate as “Rabble’s Daily.” The mock-up front page is all about Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize.
The upper corner heralds the award with the precise sub-head “The first Nobel Prize awarded to a Chinese citizen residing on the mainland” and notes, “although he has been punished severely, Liu Xiaobo has become for many Chinese a symbol at the forefront of the struggle for basic human rights.”
The text is a translation of an op-ed published in the New York Times on Friday by Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, titled “Why We Gave Liu Xiaobo a Nobel.”
Ruan Ji, a blogger who provided the translation, notes that it is the result of edits made to a first-pass translation by Google Translate.
- New York Times: Why We Gave Liu Xiaobo a Nobel
- Ruan Ji’s blog (Chinese): Why we gave Liu Xiaobo a Nobel (translation)
- Image via Chen Yong’s microblog
- Related on ESWN: The fake Beijing Youth Daily A3