This article (via BoingBoing) gives background on an impending official ban by China´s General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television on the production of a genre that has increased in popularity recently: time-travel .
In these fictions the main characters find themselves transported from the contemporary to an era of China´s historical grandeur.
A nostalgia for such imagined pasts is perceived as reactionary and disrespective of history by the authorities.
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| Culture Shock between the contemporary and the historic. Image: still from the television series Shen Hua (Myth) |
