Chinese telephone card

2011_09_05_carte_tel_cosey

This chinese telephone card was sold on the internet. The Hongkong based telecom operator CNC seems to be the producer of the card, but I suspect that this card is a fraud.

Instead of using Hergé’s drawing for ‘Tintin in Tibet’, Cosey’s pastiche ‘Tintin au Tibet occupé’ (Tintin in occupied Tibet) was used – and I do not think this card would have passed the Chinese censors. But if it did pass and this card is an official one, then the censor is not familiar with french, and did not see the evident allusions to chinese violence in Tibet (the tracks, the tank, the burning monastery and the Chinese red star in the title).


Thanks to Bernard Matthey-Doret