Anti-Chinese bias in American Hollywood is the reason Chinese movies get destroyed by them

[Nanjing to Seoul]

http://article.yeeyan.org/view/234235/249175

There has been a long and on-going debate between some Chinese and westerners on whether the western media are biased in their China coverage or not. As defenders of western media rightly point out, negative news and critical commentaries may displease the Chinese, but they do not necessarily amount to biased coverage. Besides, there are plenty of positive stories about China in the western media too.

某些中国人和西方人之间，有关西方媒体在报道中国时是否带有偏见的争论，已行之多时，且犹在继续。西方媒体的辩护者们，不无合理地指出：负面新闻和批判性的评论或许引起中国人的不快，但这并不必然导致（西方媒体）总体上带有偏见。此外，西方媒体上也存在大量报道涉及中国的正面事迹。

But the accusation of bias does not seem entirely unfounded. A case in point: Western media’s treatment of Zhang Yimou’s Nanjing massacre film “The Flowers of War.”

然而，指责其偏私的论调并非看上去毫无根据。张艺谋导演的“金陵十三钗”涉及南京大屠杀，对待这部电影，西方媒体的作为，是一种能说明问题的样本。

When news came out that “Flowers” had failed to win a Golden Globe award and wasnot even shortlisted for an Oscar nomination in the best foreign-language film category, some Chinese said the result was just what they had expected given that the film had been described as an anti-Japanese propaganda in biased western media reports.

“金陵十三钗”在金球奖评选中出局，以及奥斯卡最佳外国语类电影提名亦未获入围的消息出现之际，某些中国人说这个结果不出所料，即该电影被偏私的西方媒体报道当作反日政治宣传。

[Bonobo]

1. I wouldn't call a film about the Nanking Massacre anti-Japanese propaganda.

On the other hand, the fact that China maintains a steady stream of anti-Japan rhetoric to keep attention diverted from more domestic problems seems rather obvious as well.

[davidpdx]

2. Did you see the film?

If so was it good? When are you going to be back in Seoul for that long awaited beer.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

3. I saw the John Rabe and Flowers of War movie. Rabe was good, but predictable.

Flowers of War was pretty, but flawed in its delivery and its characters. It's hard to sympathize with characters that spend 150 minutes looking down on each other and trying to snipe at each other due to supposed superiority.

I don't know when I will come back to Seoul. Getting a visa for the Chinese wife is not easy.