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Jul 30, 2013

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China Cracks Down on Televised Singing Competitions

    • Maybe we can hire the agency to come to the USA and clean up "Honey Boo Boo", "Beverly Hills Housewives", etc. etc....

    • @Buzz Buzz


    • Maybe now they can have more time to show military dramas set in WWII and during the Civil War Period. The television is not over-saturated enough with those.

    • CCTV already had well over 200 anti-Japanese TV shows playing in the country, so Brandon does have a point, will CCTV fill the void with more of the same Chinese garbage?

      Even the citizens in China must by now refer to CCTV as actually PPTV!

    • One thing CCTV never has enough of: panda shows and panda news items. The new Chengdu Panda base website, ipanda.com, is fairly hard to navigate and does not have enough clever panda cam and panda video coverage. It is just going for short, cute videos, which is easy. Some more thought needs to go into this.

    • american people are dumb because too much reality tv show which allow to go on and oppress their mind.

      ordinary american people who thirst for better viewing option was forced to watch better quality tv show from china.

      because most of their tv channel was bombard with all kind of reality tv show.
      no creativity in tv industry.

      american people are quite shocked to discover that their favorite reality tv are fake and stage by producer.

    • Thank you, wu-mao. Check is in male!

    • This is the kind of social engineering that authoritarian regimes have always tried, in the arrogance of believing they know better than the people, and which are doomed to failure from the start.

    • Jersey Shore is doing wonders for the Chinese economy. Thank you Snooki!

    • Which country does 4000-year-old China trail in the economy sweepstakes?

    • Anonymous at 7:51,

      I agree that Americans are dumb according to Chinese standards. That's why the Chinese prove how smart they are by screaming at the US to share their high tech with China every single year! :)

    • Even the name of the cancelled Chinese TV show is a rip-off of "Voice of America."

    • @There's smart, than there's smarty pants!

      I lived in China for six years. During that time I lived in many different places. I have met many Chinese and seen a huge cross-section of China. I don't see anything to suggest that the Chinese are more intelligent than Americans. The only basis I can see for saying differently is from an inspection of the quality of Chinese exchange students studying in America. Though I lack the data, I believe those students are either of the privileged elite or the distillation of greater-motivated students. Both of those would have slightly better performance on average than any given population.

      In my experience, If anything, China is much less organized as a society, and the Chinese citizens are much more ignorant than Americans. The education system is much worse than the American system. It is filled rote memorization and lacks activity encouraging independent thought. Chinese schooling is about learning to pass tests and receive what their superiors tell them to do. Their social system is much more controlled than the American one, and there is a heavy utilization of propaganda from the Central government on one hand, and a reliance of personal relationships at the local level on the other hand. Individual mobility is severely controlled. The remainder of a feudal Confucian system keeps the minds of the population dependant on this structure, and sustains gender inequality.

      I am frustrated when people insist that Americans are stupid or suggest that America is a failed system, or even an undesirable one. The mobility, information and safety that Americans have access to is unprecedented in history and is better than anywhere in the world. The number of variables that the American social system must and do account for are much more complex than any other nation and should be praised and recognized. We have people of varying backgrounds and incomes, and a large land mass to control. We have many, many things we must organize. In fact, we have the oldest government in the world. No other government has existed for longer than us. I wont elaborate on all the things that make us great, but I am sure a rational mind can realize my point already.

      Tell us, why are Americans dumb by Chinese standards?

      And also, i believe you spelled your name wrong. Based on my assessment of what you seem to be calling yourself, i think it should be spelled: "There's smart, THEN there's smarty pants!" except without the caps. I just used that for clarity.

    • Been living here in china for the past 2 years. The television shows sucks. Especially the ones from CCTV. It's like tv shows for the robots. Do chinese people really enjoy all of those boring shows? Almost all of the shows are in chinese language. Maybe that's one of the reason why many chinese can't speak english. And the only way you can watch english shows is through internet but is still also controlled by the goverment. Oh dear where will the people of china go in order to know what's happening outside the fences of their country? What happened to press and media freedom? If i wasn't using any proxy server or VPN i wouldn't be able to open my facebook account nor would i be able to watch youtube and any other blocked sites. China's goverment is very rich but it's people is still under the veil of communism. This people are silently begging for little freedom on media and the internet. Those high tech. gadgets are still useless if there is no freedom.

    • Hello ..... !!!

      You think Chinese people don't know how to use a proxy server or VPN.
      Lol, of course we do, every day.

      Considering the Edward Snowden revelations about the US spying on everyone then more Americans will be doing the same from now on.

      Chinese people are not so crazy about tv like in the US, its more like background noise while we're busy making lots of money. Also, learn Chinese, it will be helpful as you're living in China, really.

    • China is still a developing country with so many people living in poor. Too many these kinds of TV shows will give people a wrong impression. If you can recall, at Mao's time, people had been “suffered” for over 25 years but China gained a completely industrial system and relatively better social service system.

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