So the Chinese have now banned thinking about or viewing television programs or movies that simulate time travel.  Plot lines on Chinese television may no longer engage in “fantasy, time-travel, random compilations of mythical stories, bizarre plots, absurd techniques, even propagating feudal superstitions, fatalism and reincarnation, ambiguous moral lessons, and a lack of positive thinking.”

That’s a mouthful; probably more so in Mandarin and Cantonese.

Funny, I don’t recall the Chinese saying anything to the Khmer Rouge when the Mao-inspired ally declared it “Year Zero” in Cambodia — right before slaughtering a couple of million of its countrymen in Years One, Two, and Three.  In fact, the short-lived agrarian paradise seemed to embrace many of the elements now prohibited in China:  fantasy, bizarre plots, absurd techniques, fatalism, ambiguous moral lessons, and a lack of positive thinking.

Maybe what the Chinese really fear are recollections of a time when the communist autocrats were not in charge in Peking Bejing.