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Sod Mulan.
If Hollywood really wanted to troll the Chinese government they'd do a faithful mega-budget production of The Water Margin and send censors and commentators into a hermeneutic breakdown.
If Hollywood really wanted to troll the Chinese government they'd do a faithful mega-budget production of The Water Margin and send censors and commentators into a hermeneutic breakdown.
This has happened before. The final phase of the dying Cultural Revolution was in part a debate about how to interpret the ending of The Water Margin: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticize…
More recently, an official recommended banning it in 2014 to "maintain social stability": theepochtimes.com/chinese-offici…
According to this, the Ming and Qing dynasties both tried to ban it: inkstonepress.com/2019/07/03/ban…
The reason is that the theme is heroic Robin Hood-style outlaws outwitting and rebelling against corrupt government officials.
Not a subject calculated to "promote social stability"!
Not a subject calculated to "promote social stability"!
The Gang of Four's view was that the outlaws weren't radical enough. I'd imagine the current government's view would be that they were too radical.
