China Youth Daily, the official newspaper of Communist Youth League, was given a crystal clear demonstration of what propaganda authorities like, and what they dislike, recently: it received a “punishment order” for reporting about the trade in human bodies, and a “reward order” for reporting on celebrity gossip. The notices were stuck to the wall near the newspaper’s entrance recently; a visitor saw them and could not resist snapping photos and posting them online, where they went viral.
The first article, published on Aug. 22, was about how human body plastination factories in Dalian were suspected to have used the bodies of executed criminals for exhibition around the world. Plastination is the replacement of body fluids with polymers for preservation.
