Sentence examples for river crab from inspiring English sources

In his posts on Twitter, Mr. Ai wrote that on Sunday he would hold a "River Crab Fest" at the studio - "river crab" being a bit of Chinese slang for censorship on the Internet or elsewhere.

River crab.

Two of the most pointed online jabs are "grass-mud horse" and "river crab".

He xie means "river crab," and sounds like the Mandarin word for "harmonization," a Communist Party euphemism for censorship.

I recently gazed at his installation He Xie (River Crab) in the Hirshhorn Gallery in Washington DC.

In spoken Chinese, "river crab" sounds very much like "harmony," which in China's cyberspace has become a synonym for censorship.

To mark the government-ordered destruction of his new Shanghai studio, he had said he would give his supporters 10,000 river crabs – the word "River crabs" sounds very similar to the word for "harmonise", easily read as an ironic swipe at the ongoing crackdown on dissent.

Freshwater crustaceans include crayfish and some river prawns and river crabs.

But they face a problem: invading "river crabs" that are devouring their grassland.

One piece Mr Ai is making for the exhibition is an installation of 1,000 porcelain river crabs.

In the end, one song says, the horses are victorious: "They defeated the river crabs in order to protect their grassland; river crabs forever disappeared from the Ma Le Ge Bi," the desert.