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During a meeting with top military officials 10 years ago<\/a>, Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to mold the People\u2019s Liberation Army into a world-class fighting force \u201cable to win battles, with first-rate style\u201d (\u80fd\u6253\u80dc\u4ed7, \u4f5c\u98ce\u4f18\u826f). Apparently, the general secretary was not joking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News broke yesterday that Li Haoshi (\u674e\u660a\u77f3), a Chinese stand-up comedian who goes by the nickname \u201cHouse,\u201d has been suspended indefinitely<\/a> after a joke during a performance on May 13 alluded to the above slogan \u2014 which has frequently been used by the People\u2019s Liberation Army and Chinese state media in recent years to signal Xi Jinping\u2019s resolve in reaching \u201cthe goal of a powerful military\u201d (\u5f3a\u519b\u76ee\u6807).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phrase \u201cable to win battles, with first-rate style\u201d is part of a full propaganda phrase that begins with the injunction to \u201clisten to the Party,\u201d emphasizing the leadership of the military by the Chinese Communist Party, an unquestionable tenet of regime security. With its allusion to \u201cfirst-rate style,\u201d the phrase invokes for some the image of a fighting force that is buttoned-up and in tip-top shape, rigidly goose-stepping toward greatness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A response to the Li Haoshi incident from Xinhua News Agency says the pro-PLA slogan must not be derided. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

During his performance, however, Li Haoshi apparently committed the sin of turning this image into a parody. He quipped to his audience that he had adopted two stray dogs that showed great determination whenever a squirrel crossed their path. \u201cWhen these two dogs chase a squirrel, they launch after it like artillery shells,\u201d Li said. \u201cUsually, you see dogs and you think how cute they are, and your heart melts . . . . When I see these two dogs, my heart flashes with the words: ‘Able to win battles, with first-rate style.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a strongly-worded response yesterday amid a barrage of attacks from state-run media accounts on the internet, the official Xinhua News Agency did not mince words<\/a>: \u201cThe people’s army protects the country, and must have the reverence of all. ‘Listening to the Party, able to win battles, with first-rate style.’ Not a word [of this phrase] must be derided!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident has reportedly prompted an official investigation into Li Haoshi\u2019s employer, Shanghai Xiaoguo Culture Media (\u4e0a\u6d77\u7b11\u679c\u6587\u5316\u50b3\u5a92\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8), which has already said publicly that it has \u201cseverely criticized\u201d (\u4e25\u8083\u6279\u8bc4) the comedian. According to Caixin Global<\/a><\/em>, the Li Haoshi incident has \u201csparked an online debate about the boundaries of talk show jokes in China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But defining the boundaries of funny and not-funny is likely to prove a difficult, if not impossible, task in a political culture already flooded with bluster and hyperbole that can, with the slightest tilt of the head, come off as hilariously disjointed from real life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High-Level Black, Low-Level Red<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The “bit” in comedy \u2014 as stand-up performers know only too well \u2014 is a comedic take on reality<\/a>. And reality in Xi Jinping’s “New Era” has become so drenched in the viscid syrup of seriousness that it can be a real challenge to take seriously. It’s a problem endemic to seriousness: that upon reaching its upper limits, it tends to descend rapidly into farce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere beneath its mask of seriousness, this is a lesson the Chinese Communist Party recognizes only too painfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, the terms “high-level black<\/a>” (\u9ad8\u7ea7\u9ed1) and “low-level red<\/a>” (\u4f4e\u7ea7\u7ea2) have focused the CCP<\/a>‘s anxiety over its insistence on political and ideological seriousness on the one hand, and its inability to police and ensure the authenticity of that seriousness on the other. The first term, gaojihei<\/em>, which is not unlike the proverbial \u201csmile that hides a dagger\u201d (\u7b11\u91cc\u85cf\u5200), refers to the act of using humorous language to criticize and satirize. It can often be used to describe extreme expressions of praise and obedience that use the Party’s own overworked discourse to surreptitiously signal criticism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second term, dijihong<\/em>, refers to the other end of the spectrum \u2014 the cheap expression of obedience, pro-Party feeling, or nationalism that, while perhaps genuine, becomes a public embarrassment. This phrase became popular in November 2018, following an incident in which long-distance runner He Yinli (\u4f55\u5f15\u4e3d) was interrupted during the last stage of the Suzhou marathon by a volunteer trying to force a national flag into her hands. As a result, He fell back in the race, which drew scorn from internet users who felt this was a stupid and self-defeating display of nationalism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chinese paramilitary police stand at attention at a propaganda event in April 2021. The words on top of the building read: “Listening to the Party, able to win battles, with first-rate style.” Image: 81.cn<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So sensitive is the Chinese Communist Party not just to criticism but to the predations of overwrought praise that in February 2019 it released an opinion<\/a> on “strengthening political construction” that was the first high-level official document to include \u201chigh-level black\u201d and \u201clow-level red.” The document dealt with the need to safeguard the seriousness of the “Two Safeguards” (\u4e24\u4e2a\u7ef4\u62a4), a buzzword that refers to the need to 1)<\/strong> reinforce the rule of Xi Jinping, and 2)<\/strong> reinforce the dominance of his guiding ideology<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2019 document was not at all kidding when it said: “[We] must with correct understanding and correct actions resolutely enact the \u2018Two Safeguards,\u2019 firmly preventing and correcting all erroneous statements that diverge from the \u2018Two Safeguards,\u2019 and [we] must not allow any form of \u2018low-level red\u2019 or \u2018high-level black,’ permitting no form of two-faced outer devotion and internal opposition toward the Party\u2019s Central Committee, any double-dealing or \u2018false reverence.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Li Haoshi incident demonstrates, China’s highly sensitive political environment has very real implications for journalists, writers, performers, and ordinary citizens (to say nothing of Party officials themselves.) Between the perilous sincerity of “low-level red” and the treacherous pretense of “high-level black” there lies a minefield of language unfolding in reality. Potential crimes are a matter of perception, weighed by the risk psychology of China’s leadership and its media attack dogs \u2014 whizzing like artillery shells after the squirrels of disgrace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a problem endemic to seriousness: that upon reaching its upper limits, it tends to descend rapidly into farce. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

China’s state media have put on a stern face this week over the Li Haoshi incident, letting the world know that the phrase, “Listening to the Party, able to win battles, with first-rate style,” is not to be taken lightly. Since Xi first mentioned the phrase a decade ago, it has been used faithfully within the PLA to focus and re-focus China’s resolve to build world-class armed forces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How, we may wonder, has the PLA fared with the line between the serious and the ridiculous? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many examples to add to the ongoing online debate about boundaries might be found in the PLA’s own use of the phrase, including an over-the-top PLA-produced musical<\/a>, and a cheesy PLA comic strip<\/a>. But we leave you with a personal favorite \u2014 a PLA-produced illustration<\/a> that appeared on the military’s official website, 81.cn, on August 1, 2016, marking its 89th anniversary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A cartoon published on<\/a> August 1, 2016, to commemorate the PLA’s 89th anniversary.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The illustration depicts musical notes aloft on the winds with the seagulls \u2014 or are those doves of peace? \u2014 as a sailor extends an open hand. A soldier at the center brandishes his AK-56 rifle, the bayonet attached, as the words “Listening to the Party, able to win battles, with first-rate style” fly over his head, in yellow characters across the five-star flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it’s the final flourish that really hammers home the full dignity of the phrase, and the profound import of this talk of “first-rate style.” On the right side of the illustration, an air force pilot plays gleefully with a toy airplane, even making a flying motion with his hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who says propaganda can’t be serious fun? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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