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China Bans Hip-Hop And Other 'Sub-Cultures' From State Television
RFA ^ | 2018-01-26

Posted on 01/28/2018 4:39:22 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

China Bans Hip-Hop And Other 'Sub-Cultures' From State Television

China's media regulator has banned the country's top hip-hop artists from appearing on television, saying the music genre represents "non-mainstream culture" that is "decadent."

A directive from the State Administration of Press, Publications, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) published as "special content" on the entertainment pages of news portal Sina.com calls on state broadcasters to avoid hiring any performers who embody "hip-hop culture" or other sub-cultures.

Performers with tattoos are also a no-no, along with anyone representing the emo-esque 'sang' culture popular with Chinese millennials, according to SAPPRFT spokesman Gao Changli.

Those who have low levels of taste, morality or who are "vulgar and obscene" should also be avoided at all costs, Gao said.

Above all, talent must show clear loyalty to the ruling Chinese Communist Party, he said.

"Never use performers who aren't psychologically and morally aligned with the party," Gao was quoted as saying.

Performers embroiled in scandals, smears or who have problematic morality and integrity must also never be booked, he said.

Political journalist Gao Yu said the move seems similar in tone to the "anti spiritual pollution" censorship campaigns of the 1980s, when rock'n'roll stars like Cui Jian were the target.

If both the hip-hop spirit and the unique expression are considered opposite to the "core values of socialism," and then come up with a "no-hip-hop in China," then it is a reduction of cultural ugly and farce, , "Clear mental pollution" mistakes.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beastly; china; feral; hiphop; simian; xijinping; zooidal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Yep


21 posted on 01/28/2018 6:25:12 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Sirius Lee
Liberalism is an autoimmune disease.
22 posted on 01/28/2018 6:25:22 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Ever see what goes on on MTV? The Chinese position is perfectly understanding.


23 posted on 01/28/2018 6:25:43 AM PST by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: prophetic

Don’t know why people comment on things they know nothing about. Banning music is a ‘step in the right direction’. Something a commie would say. Hip hop in china is massively and almost exclusively anti-authoritarian and anti-communist. That’s why they want to ban it.


24 posted on 01/28/2018 6:26:12 AM PST by Raymann
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To: prophetic

I agree. I blame rap and hip-hop for a lot of problems in the black community.


25 posted on 01/28/2018 6:27:07 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Sirius Lee

The Chinese have 8,000 YEARS of written history. Their civilization has seen it all. Their condemnation of the barbaric savagery inherent in hip hop is quite telling.

America is headed to 3rd World status at high speed.


26 posted on 01/28/2018 6:29:24 AM PST by Huebolt (95% of all convicted felons voted democrat if they voted at all (prior to conviction))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Not either-or. I listen to oldies and some country. Most rappers end up in prison or dead. Yelling profanities and grabbing your crotch really isn’t a talent.


27 posted on 01/28/2018 6:30:31 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"China's media regulator has banned the country's top hip-hop artists from appearing on television, saying the music genre represents 'non-mainstream culture' that is 'decadent.'"

"Decadent." People in the U.S.A. haven't seen that word much for a long time. It does honestly describe hip hop and its zooidal criminal culture.

4 definitions found for decadent
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : 

  Decadent \De*ca"dent\, a.
     Decaying; deteriorating.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Decadent \De*ca"dent\, n.
     One that is decadent, or deteriorating; esp., one
     characterized by, or exhibiting, the qualities of those who
     are degenerating to a lower type; -- specif. applied to a
     certain school of modern French writers.
  
           The decadents and [ae]sthetes, and certain types of
           realists.                                --C. L. Dana.
  
           The business men of a great State allow their State to
           be represented in Congress by "decadents". --The
                                                    Century.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :

  decadent
      adj 1: marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a
             decadent life of excessive money and no sense of
             responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed
             intellectuals" [syn: decadent, effete]
      n 1: a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or
           artistically)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "decadent":
     abandoned, coming apart, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted,
     cracking, crumbling, debased, debauched, decaying, declining,
     degenerate, degenerating, degenerative, degraded, depraved,
     deteriorating, disintegrating, dissipated, dissolute, draining,
     drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing, falling,
     falling off, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces, immoral,
     languishing, marcescent, morally polluted, on the wane, perverted,
     pining, polluted, profligate, regressive, reprobate, retrograde,
     retrogressive, rotten, self-indulgent, shriveling, sinking,
     sliding, slipping, slumping, steeped in iniquity, subsiding,
     tabetic, tainted, vice-corrupted, vitiated, waning, warped,
     wasting, wilting, withering, worsening
  
  

28 posted on 01/28/2018 7:36:40 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: GoldenState_Rose
"Average Chinese idolize black basketball players. Black celebs and Americans in general."

That looked interesting, because it contrasts much with perceptions of most people of east Asian descent in the U.S.A. So I did a quick search. There is a mention of basketball behind the second link, but it's not a positive mention.

China: Embracing Africa, But Not Africans
https://thediplomat.com/2015/01/china-embracing-africa-but-not-africans/

8 of the Worst Countries For Black People to Travel (China, South Korea)
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/01/08/8-worst-countries-black-people-travel/8/


29 posted on 01/28/2018 8:05:49 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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In the comments below the posted article, it is easy to distinguish the comments of westerners from Chinese comments.

https://www.chinasmack.com/chinese-men-with-black-women-african-wives#comments


30 posted on 01/28/2018 9:05:19 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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