david c.n. ma

long live the revolution! and lawsuits!

Someone in China got upset that the state censors there required cuts to Ang Lee’s film Lust, Caution. From Reuters:

Dong Yanbin, a Ph.D student at the China University of Political
Science and Law in Beijing, had filed a suit against the nation’s film
censor, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT),
for infringing upon his “consumer rights,” the Beijing Times said.

Power grows out of a statement of claim. Its the new Mao.