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8/01/2015

Topic Reading-Vol.1207-8/1/2015

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Japanese comics that are too racy for Chinese censors... but still popular online
There doesn’t seem to be any border when it comes to popular culture. Movies, books, songs or cartoons to name a few. When one gets popular in one country, it spreads out to the rest of the world or to the people in similar cultures very quickly and widely.
This time, Japanese comics, or anime, has become a big hit among Chinese youths despite the ban and censorship by the Chinese authority. People who really want something, they seem to be able to find a way to get around restrictions or censors. Therefore, what the authority can do is to make the access to such prohibited sites more difficult than usual, so that casual viewers can’t reach or hard to find it. It is like whack-a-mole after all.
Enjoy reading and learning about the power of social media.


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