Rumors of Jiang Zemin’s death have prompted China’s Internet censors to clamp down on the internet even further; Jiang Zemin, who led the country before President Hu Jintao, was rumored to be dead or gravely ill after failing to attend the country’s 90th anniversary of the Communist Party celebrations; authorities have gone so far as to ban all searches on the former leader’s name and even “jiang,” which means river in Chinese