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https://pen.org/report/made-in-hollywood-censored-by-beijing/In 2016, China’s National People’s Congress passed the Film Industry Promotion Law, the first national law on film in China.31 The Law formalized many of the government’s long-standing regulatory policies, including many of their policies around censorship. Article 16 of the law—which came into effect in March 2017—sets out a fairly comprehensive list of the content that Beijing bans from its film screens.
(1) violations of the basic principles of the Constitution, incitement of resistance to or undermining of implementation of the Constitution, laws, or administrative regulations;
(2) endangerment of the national unity, sovereignty or territorial integrity; leaking state secrets; endangering national security; harming national dignity, honor or interests; advocating terrorism or extremism;
(3) belittling exceptional ethnic cultural traditions, incitement of ethnic hatred or ethnic discrimination, violations of ethnic customs, distortion of ethnic history or ethnic historical figures, injuring ethnic sentiments or undermining ethnic unity;
(4) inciting the undermining of national religious policy, advocating cults or superstitions;
(5) endangerment of social morality, disturbing social order, undermining social stability; promoting pornography, gambling, drug use, violence, or terror; instigation of crimes or imparting criminal methods;
(6) violations of the lawful rights and interests of minors or harming the physical and psychological health of minors;
(7) insults of defamation of others, or spreading others’ private information and infringement of others’ lawful rights and interests;
(8) other content prohibited by laws or administrative regulations.
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Part of the reason why I didn't spent a solitary red cent on the first
Doctor Strange film (well, in addition to the fact that I
loathe the MCU) is because Chinese governmental pressure resulted in material related to Tibet getting excised...even though Tibet plays an important role in the comics.