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A trending debate accuses Chinese TV writers of flattening heroines from less-educated backgrounds into romance props — and has widened into an argument over whether the industry can write anything else at all.
Golden Week's prime billboard and metro-screen slots in several Chinese cities have been handed to portraits of Qian Xuesen, Deng Jiaxian, Tu Youyou and Yuan Longping — a public-service campaign that began with one mall poster in June and became a national talking point.
A German primary-school reader still used in classrooms tells children that many Chinese have no car and greet each other with a bow. Chinese readers, looking at a page frozen somewhere in the 1980s, have made it one of the week's biggest arguments.
A viewer's simple list of three drama heroes with mistresses, ex-wives and illegitimate children has become the week's sharpest television argument in China — a fight over what the country's mostly female costume-drama audience will forgive its heroes, and why heroines are now being written to walk out.
A viral complaint that China's new television dramas are 'all milk-tea names' — poetic, pastel and past explanation — has turned into the internet's favourite naming game, and a small argument about what television titles are for.
A trending topic about the 'absurd' ways Chinese readers break sentences shows how a language written without spaces turns every line of text into a small parsing puzzle — and a national joke that never runs out of material.
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