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Chinese still don’t “get” capitalism: Gov’t calls for ban on “sexist and sexually suggestive” ads

July 16, 2007 · No Comments

 ”Advertisements that contain sexual hints or flirtatious language are easily seen on some local television channels,” CCTV said on its Web site.

You say that like it’s a bad thing …

Elsewhere in the case of China v. Capitalism, Beijing has tried to cash in on the “Ratatouille” craze by shipping rats to restaurants. OK. That’s a lie. But it would explain why

Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported 2 billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south to end up in restaurant dishes.

Here in Boston we don’t have to ship rats to our restaurants. They come of their own accord.

Categories: Capitalism · China · Chinese Socialist Realism · Chinoise · Ratatouille · china television

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