China’s media regulators have banned puns and wordplay. The State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television has restricted their use in television and advertising on the grounds that they breach the law on standard spoken and written Chinese, make promoting cultural heritage more difficult and may mislead young readers. We take a look at the ban and the effort to prevent the Internet age from creating cultural and linguistic chaos, in this Lip News clip with Elliot Hill and Mark Sovel.
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