Part iPad, Part Little Red Book. Yep, It's the Red Pad.
The only reference material a loyal Chinese Communist Party member would need to do his job in the 1960s was Mao’s Little Red Book.
Today, there’s the Red Pad (红派壹号).
Or so claimed Chinese media last month, when the websites of state-run media ran articles about the availability of an iPad-like device for the ideologically pure Communist. Running a version of Google Inc.’s Android software and boasting a 9.7-inch screen, the Red Pad offered content specifically tailored to China’s Communist platforms such as the website of the party’s People’s Daily mouthpiece – as well as a budget-busting price of 9,999 yuan ($1,584), more than twice the price of a comparable tablet from Apple Inc.
But stories and advertisements touting the Red Pad disappeared from Chinese media this week after China’s online community offered scathing reviews. Alluding to the steep price as well as the perception of widespread use of public funds for gift-giving within Chinese officialdom, one online poster with the name Khriz quipped, “Red Pad No.1? Corruption No.1!”
It’s unclear whether such a product was ever going to reach potential customers, or who the manufacturer was. Articles in state-run outlets such as the China Daily newspaper said the device was the brainchild of a former People’s Daily reporter named Liu Xianri. Mr. Liu couldn’t be reached.
The marketing materials say the Red Pad is being offered jointly with the People’s Daily newspaper and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Zhang Ningbin, an official with the foreign affairs office of the People’s Daily group, said paper’s online news site has a content-sharing agreement with Mr. Liu but it is unaffiliated with the product. The paper’s news website had removed its own article on the Red Pad on Tuesday (see cached version , in Chinese)
Officials at MIIT couldn’t be reached.
Both the reported device and the reaction reflect the power of micrblogs such as Sina Corp.’s Weibo, where policy changes are now announced where they were once trumpeted through posters. “This is a caring friend for ol’ cadres,” claimed one advertisement for the Red Pad posted online.
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The only reference material a loyal Chinese Communist Party member would need to do his job in the 1960s was Mao's Little Red Book. Today, there's the Red Pad (红派壹号). Or so claimed Chinese media last month, when the websites of state-run media ran
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Many people my age remember their young age, often lament how today’s young people are in the fortunate. Moreover, this lament is always very specific point to eat, wear point, point to the money, all in a very physical level, the so-called Yikusitian. I also experienced life as embarrassing, but do not care about the comparative level of those substances, but often think that’s a lack of spiritual life.
For example, I am on normal school in 1978, are not teaching the class. The teachers come up with the “Cultural Revolution” in front of the textbook, I valet the words written on a decent number of students with a good night, stay up late carved wax paper, mimeographed the binding out of the class has a copy, as the textbooks. I was born in a remote mountain village, on the two classes share a single classroom, a teacher of primary school teaching duplex. Finished primary school soon, do not say that much depends on the children, but to the extra-curricular books and supplementary books, I have not even had a small dictionary or a dictionary. At that time, I learned how much like ah, I think all the world’s knowledge on deep in the sheets that the teacher rolled a corner of the middle of a thick dictionary. Primary school graduate soon, schools should organize to 15 km away brush up according to the school by Sizhen photos. The news back in a couple of months ago, the teacher told us. Then, we look forward to the day that was meant for us distant town. Although I have followed his father had been one or two, the only town that has passed a studio, but I fervently hope that with everyone else with. Sunday, I routinely go up the mountains, either to help shepherd his uncle, or a small partners about herbs in the mountains or firewood. Only need to do all these things enough on the hillside. But this day, it was suggested that we go on to the summit to see the brush by the Temple bar. So, we put a rope into the tree holes with machete, panting on the ground to the summit. Long day according to the sun, looked westward at 15 kilometers away, in the mountains Mountains gradually integrated into the middle of grassland, a large group of buildings there. These buildings are surrounded by a huge left bank of the river cross the street around. Cross the street intersection where a small figure, such as beetles crawling, these figure above, there is a red flag in the wind. We are not talking, we all seem to hear a crackling sound that flags the breeze. Some of us visited that town, some people have not been, but all the villages as familiar as our own familiar pattern of the town.
@ ..or Mao's "Little Red Book'' :-)
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Fundamentalist Christians read & use the bible exactly how commies used Mao's little red book & to the exact same ends.
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