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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