中国式标语

May 6th, 2007

Posted by kunstao in 杂七杂八

普及一胎，控制二胎，消灭三胎。
Popularize the first child, control the second child, exterminate the third child.
This is a slogan about family planning policy in China, which advocates one child per family.

谁不实行计划生育，就叫他家破人亡。
Whoever does not follow family planning will have his household ruined and his family perish.

武装抗税是非法行为。
Armed resistance to taxation is illegal.
Is it legal to peacefully resist taxation?

谁烧山，谁坐牢！
He who burns the mountainside will go to prison!
This was seen by a tourist in Guizhou. There’s also the classic “Set fires on the mountain, be thrown into the dungeon”. (放火烧山，牢底坐穿。)

不怕死的就到十八里乡来作案！
If you don’t fear death, commit crimes in Shi Bali village!

横卧铁轨，不死也要负上法律责任。
If you lie across the train tracks, you’re legally responsible if you don’t die.

抢劫警车是违法的！
Carjacking a police car is illegal!

光纤没铜，偷也没用。
Fiber optic cables contain no copper. Theft is useless.
Phone and power cables are often stolen and stripped for their copper content.

违法越界观光，小心枪弹扫光。
Cross the border illegally to sightsee, beware the bullets that will wipe you out.
This is on Gulangyu Island in Xiamen. This area is also home to dueling slogans, “A unified China under the Three Principles of the People” (三民主义统一中国) on Quemoy, and across the water, “A unified China under ‘one country, two systems’”(一国两制统一中国).

集体上访违法、越级上访可耻！
Collective petitioning is illegal, petioning to higher levels is shameful!
This was written on a banner hung along a roadside in Zhiwenshang County, Jining, Shandong, discouraging villagers from exercising their right to petition to the central government.

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