A popularly circulated image on Sina Weibo (prior to its “harmonizing“) and the Shanghaiist, Beijing’s iconic Mao Zedong portrait contends with the capital city’s continuing air pollution epidemic. Be it sandstorms, factories, construction, or meteorological misfortune, Weibo user @yanyutong’s tongue-in-cheek-in-mask reference is apparently too controversial for Beijing’s choking victims residents.
(It’s not that bad. So long as you don’t mind blowing your nose and seeing black.)
K. Jacobsen's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer, Vol. II 