Monday, April 03, 2006 7:27 AM
by
will
The Register: China buys Google
Relax, it was an
April fools article in British technology website,
The
Register. However I thought it was worth re-posting the image they
created for the article, which incorporates the faces of Google's
founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, into a Chinese propaganda poster:
The original slogans are un-altered. For non-Chinese speakers, I translate them roughly as:
Workers and peasants unite, town and country unite
Beneficial prodution, convenient life
And the big slogan at the bottom:
Walk the Daqing road, hold fast in advancing toward the goals of communism!
The full resolution image is
here.
Update: Based on a comment, below, I've revised the translation of the bottom slogan, which apparently refers to the Heilongjiang town of Daqing (which would explain the oil derrick in the background) rather than a "grand celebration", which, as the commenter notes, is the literal translation of "daqing". Imagethief has actually passed through the town of Daqing on the train, a moonscape of oil pumps and smokestacks. It did not make him want to celebrate, grandly or otherwise.