{"id":31530,"date":"2012-12-20T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=31530 "},"modified":"2012-12-20T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:15:00","slug":"31530-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=31530","title":{"rendered":"Director Xie Fei says China censorship is \\’killing\\’ art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The film market in China is the second-biggest in the world<\/div>
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Award-winning Chinese director Xie Fei has accused his country’s censorship rules of “killing artistic exploration” in an open letter to authorities.<\/div>
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Xie, whose films include Woman Sesame Oil Maker, which won the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear prize in 1993 – has not made a film since 2000.<\/div>
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He urged censors to give clearer rules on banned topics.<\/div>
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Currently, China has no film rating system similar to those used in the UK in the US.<\/div>
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Films must be deemed suitable for all audiences.<\/div>
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Xie wrote that China’s system “long ago lost its real social, economic, ideological and cultural significance”.<\/div>
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He added that it “has only become a corrupt black spot for controlling the prosperity of the cultural and entertainment industry, killing artistic exploration and wasting administrative resources”.<\/div>
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It has meant that many western films have been subject to cuts in order to be released. China also maintains a quota on the number of foreign movies that can be shown in cinemas.<\/div>
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Just 20 a year are released, although the government has been trying to attract foreign studios to form joint ventures with China.<\/div>
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In March, Disney rival DreamWorks unveiled plans to build a studio in Shanghai and the third film in the Iron Man series, starring Robert Downey Jr, was co-produced in China.<\/div>
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Iron Man 3 is due for release in 2013<\/div>
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Xie’s last film was 2000’s Song of Tibet but recently he has been working as artistic consultant on a movie about controversial military leader Lin Biao, who was killed in 1971 after a failed coup against Chairman Mao – founder of the Chinese communist party.<\/div>
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The film also includes homosexuality as a theme and has been awaiting approval for four months.<\/div>
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In his letter, Xie urged censors to “move from the current administrative review system to a rating system that allows for a self-governed and self-disciplined film industry, bound by legal restrictions and administrative supervision”.<\/div>
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Xie, who is a professor at Beijing Film Academy, said: “Our current review system is not the rule by law, but the rule by man, something that we wanted to end a long time ago.”<\/div>
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Earlier this month, Mo Yan – the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, voiced his support for censorship in China, comparing it with airport security checks.<\/div>
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He said he hoped it “should have the highest principle”.<\/div>
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His Nobel prize was met with some criticism because of his close ties with the Chinese authorities. <\/div>
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