Some More Utterly Weird Bans By The Chinese Government
Reincarnation
China invalidates all reincarnations of Tibetan Buddhist monks unless issued approval by the government. (Insert the Batman, scratching his chin, saying “hmm…… interesting” meme here)
The show “The Big Bang Theory”
The Chinese authorities issued orders to retract the popular sitcom from Sohu in 2014, China’s most popular streaming service, after an explosion in its popularity.
No specific reasons were given, but we can safely assume the “western influence and low-values” factors to be behind the ban.
Alice In Wonderland
The 1865 children’s classic by Lewis Carroll got a ban in Hunan, China, in 1931.
The animals in the book display human characteristics, an attribute the governor of Hunan found quite insulting as a human. Thus, he ordered the novel to be banned.
Brad Pitt
China banned Mr. Pitt for a whopping 20 years after the release of his movie “Seven Years in Tibet”. Seven Years showed Pitt acquainting with Dalai Lama, a Tibetan monk, during the siege of Tibet by China.
The Chinese government didn’t like how the movie showed China’s brutal annexation of Tibet and banned Brad Pitt and Jean Annaud – the director, from the country. However, the ban has been lifted as of 2016.
8 Strange Things Banned In China
Let us begin by asking you two simple questions. First, are you someone who spends a lot of time scrolling through Instagram and can’t even imagine life without it? Second, are you planning to visit or move to China? If the answer to both these questions is a yes, then, unfortunately, you’ll have to give up on one thing – IG or China! Because China has banned Instagram.
Instagram banned. Seems quite irrational, right? Well, not for the Chinese Government that completely censored it starting September 2014 to stop people from sharing instigating images during the pro-democracy protests.
But Instagram is not the only one thing, China has a long list of banned artifacts – from popular websites such as Facebook and YouTube to some peculiar stuff such as cartoon characters and flowers. And we are going to look at some of them in this article.
So brace yourselves for the eight most strange things China has banned for various reasons.
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