China's cultural products to mark World War II
- By Zhang Rui
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| Poster of "The Waves." [Photo: Baidu] |
China has a long list of anti-Japanese war and World War II themed cultural works, majorly films and TV series that have appeared through the years. Some poor quality films and TV series were often seen as lacking artistic sincerity and lacking respect for history.
Ma Dingxin, a 99-year-old veteran in Sichuan Province, told the West China Metropolis Daily that many current TV series about anti-Japanese war are fairy tales in poor taste. "The real war is more cruel and harsh than is shown on TV," he said, "The Japanese soldiers are not the clowns as they are depicted in many TV shows, instead they were very strong indeed, so that we paid a heavy price with much sacrifice to win the war."
He Yunzhong, a historian who researches the anti-Japanese war, said the efforts to try to use history as entertainment to please young Chinese audiences are wrong. "No matter what the intentions are, only respecting and facing up to the history and the gap between us and enemies, will be the real and biggest respect we can show to the veteran heroes."
Wang Haiping, the vice director of Beijing municipal publicity department, said the city government initiated the projects since 2013 to organize and help the creation of the cultural projects with the significant theme by mobilizing the state-owned cultural enterprises and encouraging the private cultural institutes to provide high-quality cultural works, the Beijing Morning Post reported.
There are a series of films, TV series, TV shows and documentaries due to debut from the end of August, including the TV series "The Waves" which will debut in October, telling stories about how a batch of Beijing young students went to support the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and grow to be heroic Chinese soldiers.
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