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Winnie the Pooh is commonly available here in China. There is a TV show. The stuffed toys are in stores. I have never seen or heard of anyone getting in trouble for this character. Wikipedia's coverage of China, like much of teh White Western media, has gone over the deep end. — Preceding
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1.64.92.137 (
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01:09, 6 August 2023 (UTC)reply
There is a documented history of this occurring in China. I’m sure you’ve also never seen or heard of anyone in China getting into trouble for denouncing ruling the communist party, most likely because they are taken disappear to “re-education” camps overnight.
2601:282:167F:1300:D0E7:672C:80E3:E90B (
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20:08, 7 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Thank you for adding the big disclaimer:
- - - "Despite the censorship, there are no blanket ban on books and toys of the Winnie the Pooh character, and are still able to be purchased widely in the country. Additionally two Pooh-themed rides still operate in Shanghai Disneyland." - - -
Without it the page was cartoonishly Sinophobic. Winnie the Pooh is not banned in China, but a certain Western political cartoon and versions of may be banned. (Pooh cartoons are also on TV.) In China personal attacks on a leader are censored and generally social disapproved of. One can easily complain about something the government does, but not use the vitriol Americans fling at Biden or Trump. We don't have to be the same as you; we don't want to be the same as you. I have no problem with legitimate criticisms of China and our government, but the Western media has recently embarked on wild very Sinophobic conspiracy theories. We are real people over here and I would ask Wikipedia to consider evidence from people who actually live in China over what the biased Western media claims.
I don’t know if baidu‘s search results are different outside of China, but for me (outside of China) I get results for Winnie the Pooh
[1], but not for a combination of Winnie the Pooh and Xi Jinping
[2].
A11w1ss3nd (
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06:24, 23 March 2023 (UTC)reply
You are not wrong
I am in China. And I have seen Winnie-the-Pooh on TV and in stores. Also I noticed an article in, the government mouthpiece, China Daily praising Pooh. (
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2016-10/24/content_27155787.htm ) This whole 'Censorship of Winnie-the-Pooh in China' article and most of what is said about China in the White Western media and in Wikipedia are racist myths. A new yellow peril is sweeping teh west and the White Western mainstream media. I could produce thousands of links and in-person-photos to disprove this page, but Wikipdia doesn't and wouldn't change its hate-China-narrative.
Side note: I am not saying that everything here is a socialist paradise, but there have been clear improvements in the past decade. I have lived in America and in China; these days I prefer to live here. Just do no trust anything you are told about China by the White Western media. — Preceding
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42.3.195.251 (
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05:40, 10 April 2023 (UTC)reply
Winnie the pooh itself is not banned, but any images that puts it side by side with xi jinping are subjected to censoring. But it is a politicised conflation to give an extreme exaggeration that any of Pooh bear images are now banned and suppressed in China when I agree that it's really not and demonstrably false considering you can visit Shanghai Disneyland website and there is an entire show just for the bear. I mean how can China both censor the bear and also sell merchandise online? Obviously there's context where it depends on how the bear is used. For shopping and tourism and harmless fandom, it's not censored at all. I have added that context in that's there is no blanket ban on books and merchandise for the bear in China.
49.180.132.129 (
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11:03, 13 September 2023 (UTC)reply
Chinese page translation
I added a Chinese translation, translating this page more or less verbatim, but it banned me automatically without warning. So: if anyone (maybe you need more Wikipedia permissions?) wants to add the Chinese translation, here you go: