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China’s ancient culture has outlasted famine, Mongol hordes, the
\n British Empire, opium wars and Japanese militarism. <\/p>\n
So why is Beijing scared of Tinky Wink? <\/p>\n
That’s the member of U.K. kids’ favorite Teletubbies, which aroused the
\n ire of televangelist Jerry Falwell. Now the animated gang has fallen
\n afoul of Communist China–although not for the preacher’s reasons. <\/p>\n
See, Teletubbies is a mixed media show, in that it blends cartoons with
\n live action. And that melange is now officially banned by Beijing. <\/p>\n
from Forbes Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When we find out about something interesting but can’t Is it that their studios lack the know-how or hardware to mix live action Any readers with insights into the Chinese mind who might enlighten Afterthought – Gabe just mentioned that it is also somewhat hypocritical of the Chinese to ban the Tubbies – considering that every plastic Teletubby toy, coloring book, play set and fuzzy jammies featuring them is now “Made in China”…..<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" China’s ancient culture has outlasted famine, Mongol hordes, the British Empire, opium wars and Japanese militarism. So why is Beijing scared of Tinky Wink? That’s the member of U.K. kids’ favorite Teletubbies, which aroused the ire of televangelist Jerry Falwell. … Continue reading
\n put together even a plausible theory as to why it should be so, it sticks
\n in our craw and itches our imagination
\n like a touch of poison ivy in that exact spot between and below the
\n shoulder blades you can never seem to scratch. Why in the world would
\n the
\n Chinese be afraid of mixed
\n media<\/em>?
\n Promoting a homegrown animation industry is all well and good, look
\n at what the Japanese have done with anime and animation, art forms
\n invented
\n and
\n monopolized by the US during the first stages of their development.
\n But why do the Chinese feel that Space Jam<\/em> is intrinsically
\n more subversive than Bullwinkle<\/em> or Ghost in the Machine<\/em>?<\/p>\n
\n with animation? That is hard to imagine; the young Chinese entrepreneurs
\n we know seem to think they can do or make anything, and we are inclined
\n to believe them. Is it some weird cultural revulsion, like cartoons of
\n the Prophet, which makes mixed media an abomination in the middle kingdom?<\/p>\n
\n us are encouraged to comment.<\/p>\n