Taiwan and Hong Kong journalist and political affairs commentator Zhang Tiezhi (张铁志) has written an intriguing piece for the Chinese edition of the New York Times, 歌唱美丽岛 , that calls attention to an overlooked but sensitive aspect of the recent hullabaloo over censorship at Guangzhou’s Southern Weekend (南方周末).

At one point, anti-censorship demonstrators at the entrance to the newspaper, he says, actually sang Meili Dao (美丽岛, aka Formosa) . . .