A text of Charles Hudon
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Having beaten all records for viewership in Shanghai and has attracted attention unparalleled in the rest of the country, favorite TV series comes the Chinese to be taken off the air. On 22 November, after airing 10 of the 35 episodes 蜗居 ( woju , the narrowness of the home), "the television station Beijing Youth" (北京 台 青少年 频道) announced it was ending dissemination of the popular series. In the days that followed, the vast majority of Chinese TV stations followed suit. On the Web, Internet users are furious. It is claimed that this would be the realism with which the series depicts the reality of young adults living in large Chinese cities that would have led to its closure. Some officials also confessed half-words that reality is already what it is, it is not necessary to deliver daily by exposing the small screen.蜗居 is somehow detrimental to the building of a harmonious society. The government, of course, denied the rumor. officials said the tapes would have simply been damaged, a claim that no one came.
What could be happening in a TV series so that it becomes the target of a ban issued by the Chinese Communist Party? In fact, nothing that nobody knew. The central theme of the series revolves around 房 奴 ( fangnu , slave housing). From the vernacular, the term appeared in 2003 and is gaining popularity at the time of drastic increases in property prices that occurred in 2005 and during the first quarter of 2006. Following this period of increases, the housing market showed more and more difficult to provide affordable housing for middle class in large cities. Real social problem, the Ministry of Education formally defines the concept in 2007, so the term is now officially 房 奴 reference to urban residents purchased their property on credit, thereby endangering every year from 40% to 50% (or more) of their total income over a period of about 30 years.
Although the pressures and sacrifices that the harsh reality of the housing market now requires the Chinese is definitely the focus, the TV series trafficking, sub-theme of almost all problems related to the lives of young Chinese in large cities. Family pressures who seek to impose values that have not followed the evolution of modern China, challenges of the job market for university graduates, corruption, volatility in love, evolution conflict between values and the pursuit of an ideal material , everything goes.
Everything but a work of propaganda designed to paint a rosy life in the city too often gray, this series highlights a different facet of the "China Dream". While the difficulties of hundreds of millions of Chinese who are still awaiting the fruits of the economic miracle are well documented, we often forget that the new middle class Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and many others, there often remains very bitter. For all those interested in China, this television series to help understand this reality is lived now, but to this day remains largely unknown. After being locked up for 3 days to watch the entire series, a Chinese friend told me, angry that she did not want to own more now. "I like even better location! .
The effects of a ban being regularly difficult to predict the measures taken by Beijing finally had the opposite effect. The series is available in all stores of counterfeit DVDs and most free download sites, word of mouth to quickly 蜗居 of the TV series the most popular at present. Although it has unfortunately not been translated into English, listening nonetheless remains a good choice for those who study Mandarin. Much more than simple practice of listening and reading, the TV series highlights a new dimension of life of Chinese modern dimension Beijing seems unwilling to expose to excessive ... I myself am
reveled ...
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