Chinese Government Bans Television Time Travel – No Kidding
China’s State Administration for Radio, Film & Television has issued new protocol that essentially puts the brakes on all fictional time travel in the media. Several media outlets suggest that the concept of time travel has become increasingly popular with Chinese audiences, with characters often being transported back to ancient history. We think it all started with the cell phone that was spotted in Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 film, “The Circus.”
According to The New York Times, a statement from the Chinese government (linked to here in Chinese) explains that characters traveling back in time “lack positive thoughts and meaning” and that a program’s portrayal of time travel can “casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation.”
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