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Q: Cleavage Banned! Disgusting??
You guys read how the censors deemed too much cleavage was shown on a Chinese historical series & then
pulled it??
I'm from Aust. & must say..have never seen so much violence & blood on Chinese TV as opposed to OZ.
Have seen a day-time soap oprea here where a guy is cutting a womans flesh off her leg (seriously) & on the news showing broken bodies, missing limbs & blood everywhere etc. Never seen on our TV back home, for obvious reasons.
But, showing a bit a of tit...?
Really, what is wrong with this Regime??
Violence is ok, but any hint of sex is not? WTF..
Samsara's deductions about Chinese moral virtue, Confucian wisdom, and maintaining social harmony
Domestic violence in public: Fine
Doing a shit in public: Fine
Displaying any form of affection in public: Shameful
Pictures of bodies post-suicide, post-car-accident, post-shooting or post-abortion: Fine
Japanese soldiers being dismembered by Chinese peasants: Wonderful
Breasts: Illegal
Robk:
I swear that all these decisions are made when officials are drunk on baijiu with blindfolds and throwing darts at a board.
"Gan Bei... alright Wang... your turn to decide on why we should censor this next show".... *thud*... "time travel it is"
(yes, time travel is pretty much censored/banned in Chinese TV... you forgot that one lol)
Samsara's deductions about Chinese moral virtue, Confucian wisdom, and maintaining social harmony
Domestic violence in public: Fine
Doing a shit in public: Fine
Displaying any form of affection in public: Shameful
Pictures of bodies post-suicide, post-car-accident, post-shooting or post-abortion: Fine
Japanese soldiers being dismembered by Chinese peasants: Wonderful
Breasts: Illegal
Robk:
I swear that all these decisions are made when officials are drunk on baijiu with blindfolds and throwing darts at a board.
"Gan Bei... alright Wang... your turn to decide on why we should censor this next show".... *thud*... "time travel it is"
(yes, time travel is pretty much censored/banned in Chinese TV... you forgot that one lol)
It's probably been banned to preserve historical accuracy.
Well, they didn't have boob jobs in those days did they?
The banning of breasts is probably not Government policy I expect. But of course, the banning of foot binding is. Imagine if that came back into fashion.. urgh.
DrMonkey:
Tang dynasty, cleavages were completely fine, women with shapes were praised, and showing the shapes was the fashion.
DrMonkey:
Foot binding was introduced at the very end of Tang dynasty. Chinese women never had as much freedom during Tang dynasty, either before or after. During Song dynasty, binded foot became fashionable.
jetfire9000:
I know which show he's talking about! I was browsing through the tv the other day and there was indeed a historical show on. Fan Bing Bing was one of the actors too. And then I heard that it had to be banned / re edited to get rid of the boobage that was in it before.
Do you think that mean that all of those "historical" themed shows are actually historically accurate? I specifically asked this question to the gf once... "Is this layed out according to history, or are they just making **** up?" She replied with the latter.... Haha.
I think I agree, because I had heard from one of my professors once that the preferred shape of woman in the Tang was the plump - fat kind. Yet I did not see any fat women in the show anywhere. Think about what the wife of a sumo wrestler would look like. Same body structure with fat hanging off, but dressed up in that elegant kimono style of dress. (The Japanese got the inspiration of the Kimono from Chinese of the Tang period, right? That's another thing I heard...)
I agree. I've seen much worse on daytime tv here. You can shoot the shit out of Japanese soldiers, show dead bodies barely blurred out on the news, but heaven forbid you try and show what you see walking down any street in summer.
Chinese girls have no tits anyway, bras here have so much padding that they don't need airbags in cars.
They must be jealous of "dirty foreign women" having more tits than "glorious female comrades".
Eorthisio:
Sichuan? Sort of, I lived in Chengdu for a year and half, I saw some nice pairs including one of the teacher at the kindergarten I was working for who is wearing whatever the Chinese equivalent is of a D cup bra back home and is slim as one can be (it sure looks massive on a local girl), but overall not bigger than the rest of the country, however Sichuanese ladies tend to have more curves and better body shapes than women from the rest of the country, also here one teacher who has a nice bottom and is slim on the rest of her body, and they are not only called spicy for their look, but also for their temper. I like them more than Cantonese girls that's for sure 
TedDBayer:
The Chinese now practice boob binding, by keeping them tightly bound so they can not grow.
Yup, lots of blood (WWII and Civil War) is fine, relatives shouting at each other is fine... but boobs, OMG the nation is in danger of ... hu, erections ? carpal tunnel syndrome ? Worst case, some teenagers will feel funny and will go in their bedrooms "to review their homework". Tissues will sell more.
The show is about an empress (with Fang Xiao Mi Mi as main actress) from Tang era and her court, doing their court dramas. Tang era was a time where boobs were fine, women were expected to have some serious shapes, and to *show* the shapes. It was also an era of openess to outside influence, and *the* golden age of China. Recently, Xi said something about promoting Chinese culture. So castrating the show because of some cleavages in tight padded bras is kinda contradictory.
You want to be the cool guy ? You are hungry for fame and gold age ? Stop neutering your artists !!! Let them do stuffs, accept that there will be 90% garbage, and Victorian-era prudishness is not protecting your kids, it's just a recipe for family dramas (real ones, not fictional ones). Look at your golden age : they were open minded, they were not some prude paranoid that even a padded A cup scares.
laowaigentleman:
There will be garbage as long as the market for "art" is semi-educated.
It will take a few generations for the people to develop enough class to be able to properly evaluate decent programming.
See those people spitting on the ground and pushing to get on the bus? They want boobies and catch-phrases, not quality.
DrMonkey:
I think it's true everywhere I look, boobies, muscles and photoshopped dreams are selling well. I'm ok with having 90% garbage, I just pick the 10% I enjoy. Scientific research works the same way : 90% of what any researcher will go to the trash, and if not, I would highly suspect they don't try hard enough. I think art works the same way. Censorship, in the other end, guaranty 100% photoshopped bland garbage.
Should I be worried?
Samsara:
Haha! It depends...
If they are boobs used for advertising a nightclub or spa: OK
If they are historical boobs: BAN INCOMING
laowaigentleman:
Don't trust a Chinese TV show to have much accurate history. You'll get more of that from Blackadder.
It's just brainwashing.
And that's not the first time they've pulled it either.
Those bloody sensors are all just a bunch of wankers!
It's a shame they can't ban talentless crusty old kleptocrats.
Not to do the whole "But in America...", however, the same has been true there for a long time as well, to some extent.
Violence and killing are perfectly ok in almost any movie, (and cleavage, and suggestive shots).. but showing a full-frontal nude is mostly an absolute no-no! Real swearing is still bad. And, while for some shows (Marco Polo and Game of Thrones come to mind), showing fully nude women (full frontal) is ok, showing the same of a guy is still not ok...
While the use of "But in America..." is usually quite boring and unwarranted (as it's usually meant to reference to the rest of the world), in this case it's accurate, as we can see from European TV and films, where nudity isn't considered so taboo. The US, of all the western world, is probably the most conservative in this regard... no??
Where i am, on the local tv station there is an infomercial about a bra that can give cleavage. Pull the string and out they pop....loosen the string down they go. Tighten, loosen, repeat.
Ten minutes of mesmerizing tv!
Eorthisio:
Yeah, it's called inflatable bra pad, it's basically padding filled with air, good to make other Chinese girls and their AA-cup jealous of your B cup at the mall, but disappointing for the guy when she takes her magic bra off.
iWolf:
Not the air pad thing...this is done with strings. @Royce sorry mate, you are at the opposite end of the country. Zhongshan zstvb
