Image: We’re Going to Eat You, an early Tsui Hark film from Hong Kong in 1980. You can guess what it is about.
One thing which makes Chinese media so interesting is the political moves and countermoves to both direct and support popular culture.
Unfortunately for us eager Westerners, the Chinese government is dominated by unimaginative bureaucrats who have an instinctual hatred of superstition and unseemly behaviour. In March this year the film industry was brought directly under the control of the Communist Party through its propaganda office. The earlier restrictions on ghost stories, time travel and violence are unlikely to be relaxed.
