China bans Time Travel, Fantasy, Myths, Reincarnation, and lack of positive thinking on TV

Something else that should be too ridiculous to be true.

China has been cracking down on dissent of late, as the recent detainment of artist Ai Weiwei suggests.

But the latest guidance on television programming from the State Administration of Radio Film and Television in China borders on the surreal ? or, rather, an attack against the surreal.

New guidelines issued on March 31 discourages plot lines that contain elements of "fantasy, time-travel, random compilations of mythical stories, bizarre plots, absurd techniques, even propagating feudal superstitions, fatalism and reincarnation, ambiguous moral lessons, and a lack of positive thinking."

?The government says ? TV dramas shouldn?t have characters that travel back in time and rewrite history. They say this goes against Chinese heritage,? reports CNN?s Eunice Yoon. ?They also say that myth, superstitions and reincarnation are all questionable.?

The Chinese censors seem to be especially sensitive these days. But for the television and film industry, such strictures would seem to eliminate any Chinese version of ?Star Trek,? ?The X-Files,? ?Quantum Leap? or ?Dr. Who.? And does that mean rebroadcast of huge Hollywood moneymakers like ?Back to the Future? and the ?Terminator? series are now forbidden?

Does this mean Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings are now illegal to watch in China?

 

You know, we have a wacky news thread, Darth-Yahoo.com

 

the same thing happened when confucius took over. they'll be just fine. they have ipods now.

 

Sounds like the first half of the Soviet Union and their fight against Avant Garde

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Soviet_Union

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_music


I feel sorry for whoever is going to be the Chinese Shostakovich

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich

 

LOL the irony...

 

How is there any difference between this Chinese decree and a Christian fundamentalist church burning a bunch of Harry Potter books?

China = really are Christians

 

Orwell is alove and well.

 

DOWN with China

 

China is the last place I would expect to find myth and fantasy anyway, so they're not really changing anything.

 

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

 

alive*

 

Freudian slip

The Chinese regard any use of ghosts and supernatural forces in film as a huge taboo. Wooo, dead Chinese, really scary. They can use some fantasy over there. You can get arrested for having an orgy.

 

China just doesn't want anyone going back in time to eliminate Hitler because such attempts will invariable fail, which would lead to the Germans gaining access to cloning technology and result in NAZI DINOSAURS.

 

What about those mythical historical epics China is known for? No more Jet Li running across water and Chow Yun Fat flying through bamboo forests?

 

The moral lessons of Hero weren't really ambiguous.

 

China desires to ban time travel in fiction because they know that time travel fiction will inspire a young Chinese scientist to invent time travel faction, which will allow him to travel into the past and destroy communism. They know this, because it has happened before. They know, due to Source Code, how to operate their strategy.

 

In talking about China I think it was Jackie Chan who said something like, "People should nto be allowed to do what they want." I wonder how many Chinese feel the same way?

 

I imagine most of them feel that way, in a general sense. They put more stress on "Duty" than Western people.

 

I doubt he was endorsing such restrictions, Jackie has made a few movies that would probably be banned under these rules.

 

lol stuff white people believe about China.

 

Hi Ender

 

He's ******* right about that. The only difference is he probably thinks China's uber-neoliberalism is a good thing.

 

So you're saying China hasn't banned time travel shows?

 

I was referring to the post above mine. Should've quoted I guess.