Posted on 09/02/2021 5:44:09 AM PDT by karpov
BEIJING (AP) — China’s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote “revolutionary culture,” broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.
President Xi Jinping has called for a “national rejuvenation,” with tighter Communist Party control of business, education, culture and religion. Companies and the public are under increasing pressure to align with its vision for a more powerful China and healthier society.
The party has reduced children’s access to online games and is trying to discourage what it sees as unhealthy attention to celebrities.
Broadcasters must “resolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal esthetics,” the TV regulator said, using an insulting slang term for effeminate men — “niang pao,” or literally, “girlie guns.”
That reflects official concern that Chinese pop stars, influenced by the sleek, girlish look of some South Korean and Japanese singers and actors, are failing to encourage China’s young men to be masculine enough.
Broadcasters should avoid promoting “vulgar internet celebrities” and admiration of wealth and celebrity, the regulator said. Instead, programs should “vigorously promote excellent Chinese traditional culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture.”
Xi’s government also is tightening control over Chinese internet industries.
It has launched anti-monopoly, data security and other enforcement actions at companies including games and social media provider Tencent Holding and e-commerce giant Alibaba Group that the ruling party worries are too big and independent.
Rules that took effect Wednesday limit anyone under 18 to three hours per week of online games and prohibit play on school days.
Game developers already were required to submit new titles for government approval before they could be released. Officials have called on them to add nationalistic themes.
The party also is tightening control over celebrities.
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Does Don Lemon know about this?
This is the sort of thing the CCP is talking about. This particularly guy is named Lu Han and his closest analogue in the West might be someone like Justin Bieber 10 years ago, but more effeminite. Its actually been a societal debate for years, and particularly for companies marketing to women, these "little fresh meat" or "luxury pig-men" are appearing more and more on advertisements, TV shows, etc...
We have the opposite here. We have “sissy men” all over the place (when we actually show men) and real men are taboo.
K-Pop is now a CCP target, as what many in young Chinese music entertainment have become is Chinese versions of very the popular K-Pop style, which is popular all across East Asia. That popularity upsets the CCP. That is the heart of it. Too much popularity in non-CCP themes irks the CCP as forms of the people losing allegiance to it.
Xi Jinping and the top of the party with him, think they have achieved all the goals they needed to with markets, including massive wealth and capital for the government along with vast technological based controls over society, so now it is time to put all that to its true purpose, restoring Mao-like allegiance to the party leader.
Old Chinse imperial dreams in new clothes.
Agreed ! The one commercial where that "person" wants to be Simone Bile's bff and wear her leotard just nauseates me.......
Sissy “men” in America also take the form of scared little b!tches, still irrationally frightened and irretrievably stupid over the chinese evil spirit, covid ... especially throughout professional sports where the fear of covid still runs rampant particularly among “male” athletes, “male” team owners and “male” sportscasters. Pathetic, the lot of them.
Great. Force them back into the closet. That will help the poor women they marry and the children they sire.
Good question.
Not uncommon (often played by Russian or Australian actors) but more likely Japanese. You will see corrupt businessmen in Chinese dramas all the time - but never a corrupt police officer of government official. Contrast that with Korean dramas, where a non-corrupt policeman or politician is a rarity.
so no commercials for Truvada for PrEP? Good for them. Normal people don’t want to see that crap.
Thanks.
What has been seen cannot be unseen.
Hey there! Rachael Maddow is starting to look kind of fem!
Have to agree with China on both.
The male/female imbalance under age 30 is enormous in China, 16 million more men than women aged 15-29. The vast majority of the Chinese in that age range are only children, so the men are not “surplus.” China needs those men to be highly productive to support the aging population an the women in that cohort need to have children to stop the population collapse. If too many young Chinese men play video games and go dancing, the aging population will starve. The policy is aggressive because the risk is so high.
Dang, I’m amazed to find I agree with the commies on at least one thing.
I haven’t had a working TV in my house for over 20 years and in part it’s because the people that appear on TV minute to minute each day make me sick, including “sissy men”.
LOL
So the Chinese are promoting values and environments that were conducive to success in the mid 20th century. They are protecting their culture and their people.
Censorship is not a dirty word when a country chooses what values to impart and expect.
“Old Chinse imperial dreams in new clothes.”
Exactly. The ChiComms want to substitute hero worship of movie celebrities for hero worship of ChiComm party members. The trouble is that there’s nothing interesting or masculine about noodle-arm Chinese communist thieves and liars.
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