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The most internationally famous of Australia\u2019s 1.2 million people of Chinese ethnicity \u201ccame out\u201d this week. He is the best-known Chinese cartoonist in the world, and each of his major works has been downloaded millions of times. Until this week he invariably wore a mask during his rare public appearances and agreed only to be interviewed via Skype to protect family members back in China. He is known only by his pen-name,\u00a0Badiucao<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Shanghai-born artist is a powerful critic of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, and has drawn many unflattering\u00a0cartoons<\/a>\u00a0of its general secretary Xi Jinping, usually in his trademark German expressionist style. Cartoon images of Chinese leaders are banned in the People\u2019s Republic, so Badiucao\u2019s caricatures \u2014 regularly featuring Xi as \u201csilly old bear\u201d Winnie the Pooh \u2014 pack an unusually powerful punch for mainlanders with access to his platforms.<\/p>\n

Badiucao, who remains reluctant to use his real name, revealed his face towards the end of\u00a0China\u2019s Artful Dissident<\/em><\/a>, a new film by Australian documentary-maker Danny Ben-Moshe, broadcast by ABC TV on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Please click here to read the full \u201cIt\u2019s not hard to become a political cartoonist from China, because there are only five or six of us\u201d<\/a> article published at Inside Story, written by Griffith Asia Institute Industry Fellow, Rowan Callick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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