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The radical age of Chinese cinema

Chinese Whispers

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The Current Mode of Vagueness Is Self Censing

There is now a published kind of list of what's not allowed, but the terms that are used are quite vague. So they're not necessarily saying, o, well, you can't show. Is not like hollywood, where in the forty and thirties you were told, there must always be a foot on the ground if you're in bed. Whereas now in china, it's still quite abstract. And that leaves a lot of room for the censers. I think yes, because it's a commercial industry now. In the eighties, maybe as a film maker, you didn't feel so responsible for profits and losses. But now you're dealing with somebody's

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