Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Friday, May 06, 2011

China bans detective fiction as well as time travel fiction

Government regulators in China have told television broadcasters not to run any detective or spy dramas. This comes not long after time travel plots were banned for being fiction.

Chinese regulators suspend TV crime and spy dramas
China has ordered TV stations across the country not to air any detective shows, spy thrillers or dramas about time-travel for the next three months…

China's Communist Party is preparing to mark 90 years since its founding and the authorities want TV stations to air programmes praising the party instead.

The government wants China's one billion television viewers to tune in to a wholesome diet of patriotic propaganda that will glorify the party ahead of the anniversary on 1 July…

So what many Chinese viewers will now see in the coming weeks are shows like the specially-made historical drama Dong Fang… the show charts the development of Marxism-Leninism in China and the achievements of the Communist Party in politics, military, culture, economics and diplomacy.

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