21 Facts About Badiucao

Badiucao is an Australian political cartoonist, artist and rights activist based in Australia.

Badiucao is regarded as one of China's most prolific and well-known political cartoonists.

Badiucao was born in 1986 and raised in urban Shanghai.

Badiucao's paternal grandfather was a pioneer filmmaker, who was persecuted after the communists came to power, sent to laogai farms in Qinghai during the Anti-Rightist Campaign, and starved to death.

Badiucao's father grew up with the help of neighbours and strived for university education, but was denied admission because of family ties.

Badiucao had no formal training in art while in China.

Badiucao studied law at the East China University of Political Science and Law.

Badiucao's works had been published in BBC, CNN, China Digital Times and Hong Kong Free Press; and had been used by Amnesty International and Freedom House.

Badiucao's works have featured exhibitions in the US, Australia, Italy, Czech Republic and Poland.

Until June 2019, Badiucao wore a mask at public events to maintain as much anonymity as possible.

Badiucao utilizes satire and pop culture references to convey his message.

Badiucao often manipulates archetypal images from Communist Party propaganda to make subversive political statements.

Badiucao asserts that the government authorities in China are very concerned that their suppression of human rights activism is attracting attention from international media.

Badiucao is extremely active and often responds quickly to prevailing news and events in relation to mainland China, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora.

Badiucao responds quickly to news and events relating to other authoritarian countries such as Iran.

Badiucao highlighted the irony of the attack with a cartoon comparing Tsai's marital status to that of Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.

In 2018, an art show about Badiucao was planned to be held in Hong Kong.

Badiucao created a "protest NFT collection" criticizing China's human rights record and calling for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics, created through the Art in Protest residency, a partnership between the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and the Human Rights Foundation.

Badiucao then entered a supermarket where the group waited for him outside and then left after about 45 minutes.

On June 13,2024, the community of Chinese dissidents in Melbourne, Australia, held an event that Badiucao was supposed to attend and whose attendees included the journalist and reporter Cheng Lei, who had been released after spending three years in prison on false charges in October 2023.

An unidentified man with a similar physical build to Badiucao showed up at the event pretending to be him, which he achieved by wearing a mask almost all night, since when Badiucao maintained his anonymity, he used to show up at events wearing a mask.