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Immortality, disagree, emigrate, and personality cult - here's every word and phrase China censored after criticism of Xi Jinping's potentially unending reign

Immortality, disagree, emigrate, and personality cult - here's every word and phrase China censored after criticism of Xi Jinping's potentially unending reign
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I oppose

I oppose

Disagree

Disagree

Personality cult

Personality cult

1984

1984

Animal farm

Animal farm

The emperor's dream

The emperor

Also banned:

  • My emperor
  • Named emperor
  • Proclaim oneself emperor
  • First year of an emperor's reign

Slavery

Slavery

Shameless

Shameless

Emigrate

Emigrate

Searches for the term 'emigrate' spiked on Baidu, China's search engine.

Incapable ruler

Incapable ruler

Disney

Disney

Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh

The bear apparently looks like Xi, and pictures of Winnie wearing a crown and sitting in a throne spread on Weibo.

Ascend the throne

Ascend the throne

Also banned:

  • Urge a power figure to formally seize the throne

To board a plane

To board a plane

This sounds similar to "ascend the throne."

Change trains

Change trains

Go against the tide

Go against the tide

Big River, Big Sea

Big River, Big Sea

The title of a 2009 book about the Chinese Civil War.

Rule the world

Rule the world

Throughout the ages

Throughout the ages

Change the law

Change the law

Reign title

Reign title

Universal celebration

Universal celebration

Chinese emperor stock

Chinese emperor stock

Chinese speculators pounced on stocks with "emperor" in their name after term limits were scrapped.

Yellow gown

Yellow gown

Yellow was the imperial colour, the colour of the emperor.

Roll up sleeves

Roll up sleeves

A phrase once said by Xi.

Chairman, lifelong control

Chairman, lifelong control

Xi Zedong

Xi Zedong

Recover one's authority

Recover one

Brave New World

Brave New World

Crooked-neck tree

Crooked-neck tree

One emporer is said to have hanged himself on a crooked tree.

The wheel of history

The wheel of history

I'm willing to be a vegetarian for the rest of my life

I

A viral line in the show "Empresses in the Palace."

Oppose Qing, restore Ming

Oppose Qing, restore Ming

Qing was the last imperial dynasty.

Also banned:

  • "Dream of Returning to the Great Qing," a 2006 book.

Great men sent from heaven

Great men sent from heaven

Long live the emperor

Long live the emperor

Also banned:

  • Long live
  • Lifelong
  • For life system

Thousands of years

Thousands of years

Immortality

Immortality
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