“Why is the sun this red and still so cold?”
Although China has opened up to the world as globalization and digitization paved the way for the global village as well as a global economy, the country still remains something of a black box to an outsider. The current debate about Trump’s sanctions of Chinese products shows the relevance of economic progress and global connections to the government. At the same time, the arrests of artists like Liu Xiabobo and Ai Weiwei speak a very old language, one defined by oppression, fear and censorship. While China’s political and economic elite seems to have cherry-picked the benefits of capitalism for itself, its stance on free speech and free press has not changed one bit.
The power of Chinese censors notwithstanding, you should ask the question how a film like “Dahufa” slipped through the cracks and is now screening at...
Although China has opened up to the world as globalization and digitization paved the way for the global village as well as a global economy, the country still remains something of a black box to an outsider. The current debate about Trump’s sanctions of Chinese products shows the relevance of economic progress and global connections to the government. At the same time, the arrests of artists like Liu Xiabobo and Ai Weiwei speak a very old language, one defined by oppression, fear and censorship. While China’s political and economic elite seems to have cherry-picked the benefits of capitalism for itself, its stance on free speech and free press has not changed one bit.
The power of Chinese censors notwithstanding, you should ask the question how a film like “Dahufa” slipped through the cracks and is now screening at...
- 11/22/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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