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Wednesday | 06:00 PM | Shunkouliu ‘Slippery Jingles’: Taking the Pulse of Popular Chinese Thought in the 1990s Perry Link & Barbara Mittler In the 1990s, after the June Fourth massacre of 1989, it was much more difficult than it had been in the 1980s to express political or social criticism in public. Later it became possible to register criticisms on the Internet, but for the decade 1990 to 2000 the main media for socially-critical expression were shunkouliu 顺口溜, which were rhythmical, often rhymed, jokes about corruption, inequality, bullying, sexual excess, and other vices, usually among the powerful. Like jokes in the West, they were passed around authorlessly, but some of them spread nationwide, and the central government had an office that collected and analyzed them as a way to understand authentic popular opinion. Address Institut für Sinologie Raum 201 Akademiestraße 4-8 69117 Heidelberg Organizer Institut für Sinologie Homepage Organizer www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie Contact Alle Termine der Veranstaltung '(Chinese) Evening Chats in Heidelberg ': Thursday 13th December 2018, 06:00 PM Does Science Imply Human Rights? Answers from Fang Lizhi, Astrophysicist and Dissident Perry Link & Barbara Mittler Wednesday 09th January 2019, 06:00 PM Shunkouliu ‘Slippery Jingles’: Taking the Pulse of Popular Chinese Thought in the 1990s Perry Link & Barbara Mittler Wednesday 06th February 2019, 06:00 PM Liu Binyan and Chinese Reportage Literature Perry Link & Barbara Mittler |