A chinese ghost story 20039/23/2023 The unwelcomed supernatural beings and wandering Chinese spirits had nowhere to go but took roots and flourished in postwar Hong Kong cinema, particularly in Cantonese-speaking pictures. The post-1949 Communist regime continued to sanctify its state-owned cinema by exorcising demonic elements from the screen, while reserving the wicked spirits as malicious labels for her ideological class enemies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the advent of film censorship administered by cultural bureaucrats in 1930s Shanghai, Chinese horror cinema had become a tabooed subject because it was spreading superstitions and “feudalistic” beliefs.
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