"Beginning in February, when anonymous calls for a Chinese "Jasmine Revolution" began circulating on the Internet, the Chinese characters for jasmine have been intermittently blocked in text messages while videos of President Hu Jintao sing  Mo Li Hua, a Qing dynasty paean to the flower, have been plucked from the Web. Local officials, fearful of the flower's destabilizing potency, canceled this summer's China International Jasmine Cultural Festival, said Wu Guangyan, manager of the Guangxi Jasmine Development and Investment Company." - New York Times, 11 May 2011