It’s not quite yet Halloween, but pro-democracy Hongkongers have already gotten into the spirit of things with a “ghoulish” get up.
Occupy Central supporters have shared photos or Photoshopped images of themselves or others with a yellow strip of paper with the words “I Want Real Universal Suffrage” stuck to their forehead.
If you’ve watched enough horror films, or older (1970s-1990s) Hong Kong kung fu flick, you'll recognize that the Occupy Central protesters and supporters are re-purposing the yellow strips as the talisman plastered to the foreheads of jiangshi, a type of Chinese undead ghoul that has traits of both Western zombies (stiff movement, “mindless” behavior) and vampires (feeding off a living person’s live essence).
Yes, Chinese zombies are THAT near-sighted. Off the Great Wall/Screenshot
