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One day after its first episode debuted on two provincial TV channels on Sunday night, the TV adaptation of the novel White Deer Plain has disappeared from the airwaves.
"To achieve better broadcasting impact, the TV series White Deer Plain will be broadcast someday in the future. Thanks for all your attention," said an identical message posted on the two channel's official Sina Weibo accounts around 11:20 am Tuesday.
Schedule change
The second episode of the TV series was originally supposed to air on Jiangsu TV and Anhui TV at 7:30 pm on Monday. However, that evening audiences found other shows had taken the adaptation's place. Jiangsu TV showed the film Lost in Hong Kong while Anhui TV screened live talk show Listen to China.
The show's sudden disappearance is quite unusual
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Leading up to the show's debut, the show's producers told media they had been preparing for 15 years to make the 85-episode series, which stars a lineup of China's veteran actors and actresses.
After the initial broadcast of the first episode
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"I have watched the first episode twice, and was very looking forward to a new episode last night. I never expected that it wouldn't air," Chinese film director Du Ren posted on Sina Weibo on Tuesday.
As of Tuesday afternoon, no other reasons have been provided for the takedown. Chinese netizens have speculated that it may have been due to the appearance of politically related content.
In his post on Tuesday, Du speculated that one of the reasons behind the removal may be related to the main character's political background and tragic ending. This post was removed later that day.
Politically sensitive
Set during the latter part of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in the small village of "White Deer" in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province
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Chen was praised for the way he integrated the personal lives of his characters into a grand historical background that spanned several decades.
Due to its heavy political content, the book was edited several times before it was published by the People's Literature Publishing House in 1993. In fact, the content was deemed so sensitive that the book was revised once again in 1997.
The novel, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1997, has seen numerous adaptations into several mediums
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Copyright troubles
Also in 2012, the French version of the novel was published in France. Having already been translated into Japanese, Korean
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Although the Chinese government has been pushing to introduce Chinese literature overseas, the novel has not yet been translated into English. Some fans of the novel has speculated that it may be due to the difficulties that come with translating the local Shaanxi dialect into English.
But the most likely suspect comes down to copyrights.
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