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Posted on 11/20/2020 5:30:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
An anti-Japanese war-themed drama series has been cancelled in China after receiving criticism for being “too far removed from historical facts.”
Concerns among Chinese authorities that the “excessive entertainment factor” of such dramas is problematic are thought to be behind the move.
Leiting Zhanjiang (Lightning general), which depicts young soldiers of the Communist Party’s Eighth Route Army fighting the Japanese military, was first aired on Nov 3 on a regional Chinese network and online.
Questions circulating on the internet included comments about soldier’s hairstyles being styled even though the story takes place during wartime and members of the Eighth Route Army sleeping in a luxurious villa.
The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party, published a critical article online on Sunday (15 Nov), saying history should be handled with compassion and respect, not frivolity and irresponsibility.
According to the online edition of Ming Pao, a Hong Kong daily, the regional station stopped broadcasting the drama on Monday and it has now been taken off the internet as well.
A number of unrealistic anti-Japanese dramas have been created in the past, including one in which a martial arts expert tore a Japanese soldier in two by hand.
In July, Chinese authorities issued a notice urging broadcasters not to broadcast dramas that defy common sense and reason and interpret history in an amusing way.
The CCP is using propaganda to stir up Chinese sentiment for a war against Japan.
Well so much for Blazing Saddles
(on at least one of the two criteria).
***Chinese authorities issued a notice urging broadcasters not to broadcast dramas that defy common sense and reason***
Does this mean we will never see a RUN RUN SHAW produced movie again? No more flying through the air or doing impossible jumps and stunts?
so wait- the main reason they stopped the broadcast is soldiers had nicely coiffed hair??
I visited China on business and saw a WWII drama that showed the heroic Chinese fighting the Japanese Army. It was pretty funny. The Chinese were very good looking (both men and women) with clean and pressed uniforms. In contrast, the Japanese had bad teeth, thick glasses and very dirty uniforms. They were also cowardly. I took it for what it was worth. Was the only think I could watch on Chinese TV where I could kinda/sorta figure out what was going on.
I actually subtitled couple Japanese WWII propaganda movies.
Weird seeing it from the other side.
“anti-Japanese dramas have been created in the past, including one in which a martial arts expert tore a Japanese soldier in two by hand.”
Put it on the El Rey network, They’ll show it.
Did any show the heroic and noble work of the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army?
Was the only person in the theater who laughed when the actresses started flying in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
Apparently nobody else there understood it was meant to be a comedy.
Wasn’t it?
I wandered into a bootleg DVD store in Toronto’s Chinatown a few years ago, and looked at a few Chinese war movies. I was kind of amused until I thought about who the “bad guys” were. I’ll bet they looked a lot like me.
Back in the 40’s?
Factually correct, but the headline misses the main point: The Long March was not fighting against Japan, it was fighting against Chiang Kai Shek’s Kuomintang. Chinese Nationalists had an American style constitution, and fought the Japanese. Mao didn’t fight against the Japanese, he fought against the Nationalists. And the Maoist revolution couldn’t have happened without the support of American Owen Lattimore’s Institute of Pacific Relations with its journal Pacific Affairs, just as the Soviet Revolution could never have survived without the support of Wall St. Apparently financial capitalists found the most efficient way to open remote, “backwards” areas to their control was through these Communist revolutionaries.
If they want ridiculous, ahistorical battles they could just call it 三百 (sān bǎi).
The Japanese atrocities against the Chinese and Koreans in WWII were equal to the Nazi atrocities in WWII.
Has anyone here heard of the Rape of Nanking?
The Japanese did medical experiments on the Chinese and Koreans equal to the sickest of the Nazi ‘medical experiments.’
Yeah, one was about the raid on Pearl Harbor and the Malay that sunk a British battleship and the other about good old tank commander Nishizumi
“When we hang the last capitalist, the fool will sell us the rope”.
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