Crotch Central Committee

档/裆/挡中央 (Dàng/Dāng/Dàng Zhōngyāng): Party Central Committee

Alternate name(s) for the Chinese Communist Party. The character “[political] party” (党 dǎng) is replaced by “file” (档 dàng), “crotch” (裆 dāng), or “block” (挡 dǎng). 党 (dǎng), the character for "Party," is not used because netizens feel it is a loaded term and at times may attract the online censors.

By “blocking the center” with a grass-mud horse, Ai Weiwei conveys the meaning, “F**k you, Party Central Committee” (草泥马裆中央 cǎonímǎ dāng zhōngyāng, i.e. 肏你妈党中央 cào nǐ mā Dǎngzhōngyāng).

This cover from Han Han’s short-lived magazine Party suggests that “The Party Central Committee has guns.”

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