{"id":1124316,"date":"2021-12-16T07:13:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1124316"},"modified":"2021-12-16T07:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:13:46","slug":"xi-jinping-threatens-artists-to-create-only-healthy-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/xi-jinping-threatens-artists-to-create-only-healthy-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping Threatens Artists to Create Only \u2018Healthy\u2019 Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fxi-jinping-threatens-artists-to-create-only-healthy-art%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1124316&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Tuesday warned artists to create only \u201chealthy\u201d art that extols the virtues of \u201csocialism with Chinese characteristics,\u201d or else \u201cthe people will not accept it\u201d \u2013 a not-very-veiled warning that Xi\u2019s totalitarian government will punish artists who challenge the Chinese communist ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Xi made his remarks in an address to the 11th National Congress of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, which was held concurrently with the 10th National Congress of China Writers Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>China\u2019s state-run <\/span><i><span>Global Times<\/span><\/i><span> noted admiringly that Xi spoke as not only \u201cpresident\u201d of the government in Beijing, but also \u201cgeneral secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19148010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235599353.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19148010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235599353.png\" alt=\"Chinese President Xi Jinping sings the national anthem during a reception at the Great Hall of the People on the eve of China&#039;s National Day in Beijing on September 30, 2021. (Photo by GREG BAKER \/ AFP) (Photo by GREG BAKER\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Xi Jinping sings the national anthem during a reception at the Great Hall of the People on the eve of China\u2019s National Day in Beijing on September 30, 2021. (Photo by GREG BAKER\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Oblivious to the ugly authoritarianism inherent in unelected leaders with multiple executive titles handing down marching orders to conclaves of State- directed \u201cartistic\u201d institutions, the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>gushed over Xi\u2019s \u201cadvice\u201d to content creators:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><span>Chinese literature and art should not become a creator, follower or advocator of an unhealthy social climate, Xi said, noting that art cannot be the slave of the market, and artists should abide by moral standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Writers and artists should cherish their social influence, seriously consider the social effects of their works and, if they commit misconduct, the people will not accept it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>President Xi once said that socialism with Chinese characteristics is a great cause of comprehensive development and there can be no socialist modernization without the prosperity and development of socialist culture.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>noted this advice already has considerable state muscle behind it, as China\u2019s \u201ccultural authorities\u201d have been \u201cstepping up efforts to strengthen regulation on entertainment companies and entertainers as part of China\u2019s effort to promote the healthy development of the industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cIn November, China\u2019s top internet regulator announced it established a ban list to prevent celebrity-related content from promoting distorted values, including abnormal aesthetics, vulgar scandals, and content that induces fans to blindly idolize celebrities or hypes the comeback of entertainers who have illegal and unethical records,\u201d the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) paper recalled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This was a reference to China\u2019s crackdown on \u201cfan culture,\u201d which cynical observers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/09\/09\/china-denies-fan-culture-crackdown-targets-south-korean-entertainers\/\"><span>saw<\/span><\/a><span> as an effort to purge South Korean influence from Chinese Communist culture. Some South Korean pop singers have become enormously popular with Chinese young people, who have a tendency to become obsessed with celebrities.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16603412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BTS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16603412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/BTS.jpg\" alt=\"This picture taken on April 29, 2021 shows members of the K-pop boy band Blitzers performing during their dance practise session at a rehearsal studio in Seoul. - Thirty teenagers, thousands of hours of training, dozens of shattered dreams: it all comes to a head next week when the Blitzers will be launched into the cut-throat K-pop market, hoping to become the next BTS. - TO GO WITH SKorea-music-social-entertainment-Kpop,FOCUS by Kang Jin-kyu (Photo by Jung Yeon-je \/ AFP) \/ TO GO WITH SKorea-music-social-entertainment-Kpop,FOCUS by Kang Jin-kyu (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This picture taken on April 29, 2021 shows members of the K-pop boy band Blitzers performing during their dance practise session at a rehearsal studio in Seoul. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The prohibited \u201cabnormal aesthetics\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Global Times <\/span><\/i><span>referred to include \u201cgirlie\u201d or \u201csissy\u201d behavior by male TV and movie personalities. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/09\/02\/male-girlie-behavior-banned-china-crackdown-kicks-sissy-men-off-tv\/\"><span>edict<\/span><\/a><span> from China\u2019s television regulators in September specifically instructed broadcasters to \u201cresolutely put an end to sissy men and other abnormal esthetics.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This was also taken by foreign observers as an effort to curtail the influence of South Korean and Japanese pop stars, whose popularity has been encouraging young Chinese entertainers to emulate their style. The Communist Party feels that style is \u201cvulgar\u201d and not \u201cmasculine\u201d enough, so broadcasters were ordered to \u201cvigorously promote excellent Chinese traditional culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Communist Party is also cracking down hard on video games, ostensibly because they distract young people from focusing on work and education, and as one of China\u2019s many \u201cartistic\u201d administrations said over the summer, \u201cadolescents are the future of the motherland.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Foreign analysts <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/analysis-china-extends-control-with-online-gaming-crackdown\/\"><span>postulated<\/span><\/a><span> in August that the Communist Party has another, less clearly stated fear: online games bring Chinese youth into unregulated contact with too many foreigners, allowing them to socialize with people who don\u2019t live under Communist domination, exposing them to ideas that might not flatter \u201csocialism with Chinese characteristics,\u201d and giving Chinese students opportunities to organize for political action.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Tuesday warned artists to create only \u201chealthy\u201d art that extols the virtues of \u201csocialism with Chinese characteristics,\u201d or else \u201cthe people will not accept it\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}