Talk:Film censorship in China#Changes

• I delete the two items on the list. The reason takes long space, so I write here.

: Such a description should not be included. The Chinese Communist Party only imported Soviet films at that time, and Hong Kong films and other Western films were not allowed to be imported. This is equivalent to putting more than 100 movies in the world into the list, and it is an immeasurable number.

--Beta Lohman (talk) 11:31, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

• I delete the historical section from 1949 to the 2020s of the ROC. I discussed the topic on the page before, but I will tell again. Basically, the article has to be rewritten entirely even on the history part. The deletion reason is found as follow:

: After 1949, the Kuomintang government could no longer implement effective film censorship in China. These contents will be film censorship of Taiwan. So I removed this ridiculous historical narrative passage. --Beta Lohman※Office box 20:10, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

I plan to make massive changes as follows.

1. The history section will be completely rewritten, keeping only the content closely related to the theme.
2. Separate some of the films in the list, and create an new entry List of Banned films in the People's Republic of China. I estimate that there are many movies banned by the PRC, this list may be updated frequently, and a long-form entry requires condensed bytes.
3. Unreleased movies will be removed from the list. Because some movies are not released in China and the reason cannot be found out from reliable sources. It's hard to say whether such films are actually banned.

--Beta Lohman※Office box 08:20, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

:Hi Beta, I moved the post-1949 ROC section to Cinema of Taiwan#Film censorship. Please also fix it a bit. -142.112.236.29 (talk) 03:08, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

::{{ping|142.112.236.29}} I'll see it. But fix what?--Beta Lohman※Office box 19:19, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

• I have finished editing and have completely rewritten the historical passages and added the essays as reliable sources. In addition, I removed 26 movies from the list to the new list.

:The movies that are sure how to be banned and those with official bans are put in the List of films banned in China, where there are detailed details. The list in this article will be kept for now, even I think the description of the suspected banned films is not very accurate, and I will leave it for other researchers.

:I'll have to suspend editing the entry if there are no questions. What has to be done is done, and the article size has been reduced.--Beta Lohman※Office box 11:07, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

::I disagreed with this "new list" approach, but don't have energy to do debates. Beta Lohman has decided to retire, so hopefully, there are new editors willing to re-merge the two lists. It's just plain confusing and inefficient. Thanks. Supermann (talk) 05:18, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Minions: The Rise of Gru should be added to this list as an example of movie censorship in China. Good day, fellows! (talk) 14:35, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

First, the section on 'Quota for foreign films' is interesting but confusing. Specifically, the part that states "The passage of the Film Industry Promotion Act was the cause of China's anti-WTO lawsuit. Back in April 2007...". I found that interesting and tried to research this, but the source is a Chinese language pdf I cannot read. I did stub Film Industry Promotion Act; the confusing part is that the law is from 2017 while the section talks about 2007. Can someone c/e this? Perhaps some content from this could be added to the Film Industry Promotion Act article I created (I could not identify the Chinese name of that law, or zh wiki interwiki). Sadly, the author of that section (@Beta Lohman) has been inactive since 2022. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:29, 25 March 2025 (UTC)