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I hope there is not any asbestos over at your daug...

2005-12-27T12:54:00.000+09:00

I hope there is not any asbestos over at your daughter's school. Has anyone checked?

Good point. Other issues are a) the possible polit...

2005-12-22T10:17:00.000+09:00

Good point. Other issues are a) the possible political aspects, i.e. the government wants control over the perception of the film, b) the "not everyone can read all kanji" aspect, and of course c) the fact that China, like the U.S., considers itself to be the most important country in the world and hence they want things in their own language. ^_^

I think the difficulty of learning the written Chi...

2005-12-22T02:54:00.000+09:00

I think the difficulty of learning the written Chinese language (with its 4000+ characters - twice that of Japan) probably forces the use of dubbing.

But, I think you will find that most films are both dubbed and subtitled in China. This is because there are still a lot of people who learned different dialects of Chinese, so don't understand Mandarin (the official dialect).