“Pervert Pepper” Cartoons On China, Libya Surge In Popularity

It's always tough to know how much real impact there is to a claim of something going viral on a region's internet services when there's little way to count the actual number of people seeing something, but this article on cartoons depicting the death of Gaddafi in a way that criticizes China's policy on the recent Civil War in Libya offers a few fascinating elements if the audience is one hundred people or one hundred million. The Hunan-based cartoonist Biantai Lajiao (which apparently means "pervert pepper") used a range of techniques to criticize Chinese policy, from employing the name of an elites-focused hospital in China to openly asking political questions in a classic cartoon style. It has apparently bounced from web site to web site, and of course has now enjoyed an additional round of exposure through news coverage.
 
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