Crotch Central Committee

档/裆/挡中央 (dàng/dāng/dàng zhōng yāng): (sounds like) The Central Committee of the Communist Party

Instead of the character for Party, 党 (dǎng), other characters that sound similar are used. These characters, 档,裆,挡 mean file, crotch, and block respectively. The real character, 党, is not used because netizens feel it is such a loaded term and perhaps also for fear of it attracting online censors.

Ai Weiwei holding a grass-mud horsestuffed animal over his crotch. Combining the obscenity behind the word "grass-mud horse" and Ai Weiwei's action (blocking the center of his crotch), this image conveys the sentence, "Fuck you, Party Central Committee!"

- Han Han's magazine. The image on this cover suggests the sentence "The Party Central Committee has guns." Not surprisingly, Han Han struggled to win approval to publish his magazine.