What does it say about the stability of the Chinese Communist government when it feels threatened by rumors of aliens, zombies, and time-travelers? Several people have been punished in the past few years for relaying tales of the walking undead and extraterrestrial invaders for fear of touching off public panic. Earlier this month, the police in the southern city of Guangzhou published a notice online that images posted on Weibo of a woman covered in blood and a note suggesting she was a zombie were fake.  A 21-year-old man from the area with the surname Zhang was given 10 days of detention for posting the item, the Guangzhou Daily reported. in 2014, photos emerged showing a Gollum-like creature kneeling in a rocky ravine with a message declaring that it was a “mythical beast” discovered in the Huairou District of Beijing. The local police said the images were merely candid pictures of an actor in a film who was photographed going to the bathroom while in...(Read Full Post)