Friday, 10 April 2015

Mocking Mao Backfires for Chinese TV Host

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. Nor, it seems, is a dinner party in China an occasion to mock Mao’s revolution.

In the past few days, some tipsy gibes 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 state-run China Central Television entertainment programs, Mr.

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