‘Find The Thing You Love And Stick With It’: Xi Jinping And The Perfect Meme
A. A. Milne’s anthropomorphic giggling teddy resurfaces in China, if only briefly.
By: Anthony Tao Source: SUP China. Date: 27/2/2018
Chinese internet users, being internet users, had a bit of fun in 2013 on the occasion of Xi Jinping’s visit with then president Barack Obama, posting this picture to social media:
Of course it went viral, because it is almost too perfect. And of course it was censored, because of basically the same reason. As I wrote at that time, “If it doesn’t seem like a picture that compares China’s president to a chubby bear with a sweet tooth would be allowed to stand, it’s because a picture that compares China’s president to a chubby bear with a sweet tooth isn’t allowed to stand. Continue reading