sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com - The television host Bi Fujian’s performance of a song from the Mao-era opera “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy,” with irreverent asides, was captured on video.
Mao Zedong famously said a revolution is not a dinner party, and nor in China these days, it seems, is a dinner party a safe place to mock Mao’s revolution. Some tipsy jibes by a Chinese television celebrity, Bi Fujian, have been enough to inspire tirades from the state media and imperil Mr. Bi’s career.
A crooning, avuncular regular on China Central Television entertainment programs, Mr.
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