The Wall Street Journal - June 17, 2014
The inspection arm of China’s Communist Party this week took a break
from its historic investigation into the country’s corruption problems
to highlight abuse of power from a fresh angle: the fictionalized
depiction of crooked Washington shown in the television program “House
of Cards.”
The Party’s Discipline Inspection Commission on Tuesday published a lengthy article
that appeared to argue fiction is fact when it comes to Western
television and film dramatizations of corruption. Many Chinese Internet
users shot back that, for a TV show about abuse of power Beijing might
be a better setting than Washington.
The article, authored by a person named Zhao Lin at an academic group
linked to party’s anticorruption body, ponders whether abuse of power
as depicted in shows like “House of Cards” and the film “American
Gangster” is for real. Such dramas surprise Chinese audiences, the
author wrote, because the story line contrasts with crowing from Western
nations that their systems of government represent integrity.
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