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It looks like the previously reported cancellation of KangXi Festival might not have been the fault of the organizers.
According to reports, China's PRC film censorship bureau (SARFT) quietly recently issued a verbal order to temporarily shutout Taiwanese hosts. The reason? So that New Year's Eve concerts and variety shows do not become "money-burning contests."
Jacky Wu, as well as Xiao S and Tsai Kang-yung, hosts of Martial Arts Gathering and KangXi Festival respectively, were rumored to have been affected. However, Wu has denied notification of being shutout and KangXi Festival is still expected to put on seven concerts next year, though they are still in the negotiation stage.
It seems like the Chinese government is still keeping a watchful eye on the entertainment world. Do top government officials enjoy shows like Kang Xi Lai Le?
2009-11-28 12:27 am UTC
Taiwan has banned mainland artists for years, with major restrictions on concerts, variety show appearances, and starring in Taiwanese-sponsored dramas. Interestingly, those restrictions apply only on artists from mainland, not HK, or Korea, or Japan, or Madagascar. For example, until last December, dramas could only have two mainland artists (but as many K/J/random people as possible). Now they can have five. This post on cfensi here mentions the only recent relaxations on those restrictions:
http://cfensi.wordpress.com/2008/12/3
Meanwhile, Taiwanese (and everywhere else) artists have received almost no restrictions in mainland. Hence why so many artists from Greater China go to mainland to earn money, with many of them almost semi-based in mainland. Even when they could not survive in the very limited TW-industry, they can earn enough money given the large population and spending power of mainland.
I think this rumor is just that - a rumor like the "freezing" of Huang Xiaoming by Huayi or "banning" of ancient dramas (really?).
While I can see something like this being important if it were singers or actors, there's no revalance in terms of hosts. Mainland hosts receive as much accolade and fandom as Taiwanese ones, and rightly so, and there are very few prominent Taiwanese hosts on mainland shows. Ou-di on Hunan TV's Tian Tian Xiang Shang is really the only one who's necessary. SARFT would not concern itself with something frivolous like this.
2009-11-28 12:37 am UTC
2009-11-28 12:50 am UTC
They might even find the Super Girls to be good enough to go the Spring Festival Gala! (as opposed to Eva Huang or Han Xue or the TW/HK/SG/K stars they spend millions to ship in)
2009-11-28 03:20 am UTC
2009-11-28 06:30 am UTC
I think it's a bit sad that outside meeting always reports Chinese quotas as something wrong when in fact, every country has them. The US only recently had a quota on Chinese tire parts, and half of it seems to be clamoring over the idea of "buy American;" most kpop fans know how HanGeng had to wear a mask to perform because he was a foreigner; and Taiwan puts ridiculous amounts of restrictions on mainland visitors/immigrants.
2009-11-28 12:41 pm UTC
Any mainland women who married into Taiwanese families were also heavily restricted and always dependent on their husband because they had little rights. If they suffered spousal abuse, they could only take it, because so much of their rights depended on their husband.
Taiwan also strictly controls the number of permanent residency permits - required for a Taiwan identity card - issued to mainland spouses to 6,000 per year. No such quotas are placed on spouses from other countries. Mainlanders also do not qualify for an identity card card until after they have lived here for eight years, whereas foreign spouses are eligible for a card and citizenship after three years.
As a result, more foreign spouses - 59,906 by the end of November, mostly from Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand - have been granted citizenship than mainland spouses, only 44,493 of whom have identity cards, even though there are almost twice as many mainland spouses here than foreign spouses.
Without an ID card, the mainland spouses cannot vote. It is impossible to open a checking account, register a business under their name, get a home loan, obtain a passport or even make a wire transfer at major banks.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JB15
There's crappy regulations in every country, but it's just that in the western media, only the mainland Chinese regulations get magnified and reported on. And in some cases like this, the news is made up, with "rumors" backed by little logic. idarklight came here, and commented, but what if she didn't? There's probably people who won't click below the cut, who will only read this news and feel the second-hand embarrassment.
Thus, Chinese Americans shouldn't embarrassed from such news. Take it all with a grain of salt. There's been lots of progress made in China, progress that gets reported on more and more, but still mostly glossed over.
2009-11-28 12:42 am UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_
My favorite part:
In 2008, The Epoch Times released articles claiming that the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake were caused by nuclear explosions detonated by the Chinese military.
2009-11-28 02:06 am UTC
They always give it out for free where I live, and I always get so frustrated when I read the news in there (of course, I stopped reading). They are not concerned with journalism ethics at all, and so many of their reports are skewed and not based on facts. They are just so focused on screwing the Chinese government over to be concerned with anything else.
2009-11-28 06:37 pm UTC
LOL