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NEWS: Chinese Censors Crack Down on Time Travel
BEIJING — In a bizarre move, China’s television censors have issued new guidelines that all but ban TV dramas featuring time travel.
In a statement (available here in Chinese) dated March 31, the State Administration for Radio, Film & Television said that TV dramas that involve characters traveling back in time “lack positive thoughts and meaning.” The guidelines discouraging this type of show said that some “casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation.”
The guidelines, which fell short of an outright ban of such dramas, seem to have come in response to a series of popular programs about protagonists drifting back to ancient times. For instance, in “Palace,” one of China’s hottest TV series, a woman falls in love with a Qing dynasty painting, travels back in time and then falls in love with several princes.
“Palace” is broadcast on Hunan Television, a provincial network known for its popular programs, some of which are strong competitors of China’s main state-run broadcaster, China Central Television.
A spokesman for the State Administration declined Tuesday to elaborate on the reason behind the new guidelines. But the Chinese authorities are known for strictly censoring newspapers, film and TV programs that are deemed “unhealthy.”
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/making-tv-safer-chinese-censors-crack-down-on-time-travel/
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Hmm... That doesn't sound very good.
I think it works better to teach people about how things are and then let them do their choice, instead of controlling them left and right as they see fit.
Sounds silly to me. Afterall, it's just fiction for entertainment.
I think it works better to teach people about how things are and then let them do their choice, instead of controlling them left and right as they see fit.
Sounds silly to me. Afterall, it's just fiction for entertainment.
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Re: NEWS: Chinese Censors Crack Down on Time Travel
Arkanay wrote:Hmm... That doesn't sound very good.
I think it works better to teach people about how things are and then let them do their choice, instead of controlling them left and right as they see fit.
Sounds silly to me. Afterall, it's just fiction for entertainment.
Any government won't let people do their choice, but by Western, modern day standards at least, it's slightly ridiculous.
USA used to ban every movie/ TV broadcast that had even the slightest sexual content, or anything that hinted to masturbation, pre-marriage sex etc up until the 70s. Politicians frequently broadcasted messages about how people are led astray by animal-like behavior like this. It's a cultural thing, yes. Later on, that changed.
There was a documentary that dealt with that issue, that also described the hardships of Hugh Hefner's magazine (I know you know it), among others, during the first years.
Although, it looks like this attempt may have nothing to do with this, but is more for economical reasons.
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Did you know they almost didn't accept the pilot for Desperate Housewives because one of the wives was smoking right after she committed adultery with her underage gardner? They had no problem with the sex but the cigarette had to go.
China is a very funny country, more so than the US. Their need of control comes from the communiste mindset of preventing people to get any ideas or find a fault in their own government (speaking of irony). On one hand you have all these rules and restrictions within their society yet on the other hand, the economy has provided many Chinese investors to put more money in infrastructure and businesses than Europe and the US combined.
They're still doing it - or rather again - but with movies and shows that have a character smoking a cigarette.Arkanay wrote:USA used to ban every movie/ TV broadcast that had even the slightest sexual content, or anything that hinted to masturbation, pre-marriage sex etc up until the 70s. Politicians frequently broadcasted messages about how people are led astray by animal-like behavior like this. It's a cultural thing, yes. Later on, that changed.
Did you know they almost didn't accept the pilot for Desperate Housewives because one of the wives was smoking right after she committed adultery with her underage gardner? They had no problem with the sex but the cigarette had to go.
China is a very funny country, more so than the US. Their need of control comes from the communiste mindset of preventing people to get any ideas or find a fault in their own government (speaking of irony). On one hand you have all these rules and restrictions within their society yet on the other hand, the economy has provided many Chinese investors to put more money in infrastructure and businesses than Europe and the US combined.
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