4/4: Asia Pacific Forum radio show with Rebecca MacKinnon and interview in The Next Web ■ 3/13: List of 343 words blocked on Weibo as of March 13 ■ 3/12/12: Article explaining my project in more detail: How China Gets the Internet to Censor Itself ■ 3/11/12: Words posted before February may no longer be blocked (they were blocked at the time of their posting). If you find any errors, contact me and I'd be happy to correct. ■ 2/24/12: Coded and categorized: analyzing a sample of 219 blocked Weibo words
一六四〇年英国革命史 (History of the English revolution of 1640) is a book written by French historian François Guizot in 1845, translated into English by William Hazlitt.
Why it is blocked: It’s not banned for the reason you might think—the word “revolution” (革命 geming) is searchable and yields 9 million+ results. Instead, the trigger in this phrase is the date, 一六四〇 (1640)—and, in fact, one specific part of the date: 六四. Like “64,” a few other dates and numbers are blocked. See Scunthorpe problem.
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