Hexie Farm
''Hexie Farm'' (), by an author known as Crazy Crab, is an online political cartoon in China critical of the Chinese government. ''Hexie'' in Chinese Pinyin is a pun on harmony and river crab. The cartoon started running in August 2010, focusing on animal characters living in a "Harmonic Farm". It is loosely based on George Orwell’s novel ''Animal Farm''. Author The author of ''Hexie Farm'', who uses the pen name Crazy Crab, remains pseudonymous for safety reasons; no photo or personal information has been released. Crazy Crab is a fan of ''Calvin and Hobbes'' as well as ''Snoopy''. The author began drawing political cartoons after reading news about Feng Zhenghu, and Tang Fu-zhen self-immolation incident. History ''Hexie Farm'' was started in August 2010 and at the time focused on the life of the protagonist farm animals. The web cartoon quickly gained attention from Internet activists in China, and first gained media attention in July 2011. It used micro-blogging platfo ...
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Hexie Farm Title As Seen On Official Blog
Hexie or He Xie may refer to: * Harmonious Society (), Chinese leader Hu Jintao's signature ideology * Hexie (train) (, meaning "Harmony") - Chinese name of China Railway High-speed trains * River crab (Internet slang) () See also * Xie He (artist), Chinese painter and art theorist in the 6th century * Xie He (Go player) Xie He ( Traditional: 謝赫; Simplified: 谢赫; Pinyin: Xìe Hè; born May 14, 1984) is a Chinese professional Go player Player may refer to: Role or adjective * Player (game), a participant in a game or sport ** Gamer, a player in ...

Microblogging In China
Weibo (微博 ''wēi bó'') is a general term for ''microblogging'', but normally understood as Chinese-based mini-blogging services, including social chat sites and platform sharing. Weibo services makes it possible for internet users to set up real-time information sharing communities individually, and upload and update information. Weibo services use a format similar to the American-based Twitter-service, but is used almost exclusively by Chinese language speakers. The format of specific features is not exactly identical, such as, for example, hashtags on Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo, which both employ a double-hashtag "#HashName#" method, since the lack of spacing between Chinese characters necessitates a closing tag. A major difference – also in this digital arena – is that characters in idiom-based scripts, such as Chinese and Japanese can use fewer characters to convey information, as, for example witnessed by the 280 (formerly 140) characters limit that is in use on Tw ...
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Chinese Webcomics
() are Chinese-language comics produced in China and Taiwan. Whilst Chinese comics and narrated illustrations have existed in China in some shape or form throughout its imperial history, the term first appeared in 1904 in a comic titled ''Current Affairs Comics'' () in the Shanghai-based newspaper ''Jingzhong Daily'' (). Etymology The word was originally an 18th-century term used in Chinese literati painting. It became popular in Japan as ''manga'' in the late 19th century. Feng Zikai reintroduced the word to Chinese, in the modern sense, with his 1925 series of political cartoons entitled ''Zikai Manhua'' in the ''Wenxue Zhoubao'' (Literature Weekly). While terms other than had existed before, this particular publication took precedence over the many other descriptions for cartoon art that were used previously and came to be associated with all Chinese comic materials. The Chinese characters for are identical to those used for the Japanese ''manga'' and Korean manhwa. S ...
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Political Webcomics
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including war ...
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