Lessons from China’s Delicate Dance of Censorship and Expression

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On a cold Valentine’s Day in 2012, three women walked down a Beijing shopping street in white wedding dresses smeared with red to look like blood. (It was lipstick.) They had bruises on their faces, as if they’d been beaten. (It was dark-blue eye shadow.) They chanted, “Yes to love, no to violence.” Photos of the protest spread instantly across the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo. The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet Censorship does not simply