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Gao Xiaosong is a cross-border celebrity who is also a musician, director, writer, host, etc.
China has recently “banned” a number of “inferior artists” in the entertainment and cultural world on the Internet for reasons including or suspected of sexual assault, tax evasion, private life, and inappropriate remarks. Now, this trend is suspected to spread to Gao Xiaosong, a well-known music producer, director, writer and host.
Last Saturday (August 28), the Chinese Academy of History published a long article listing Gao Xiaosong’s numerous remarks on the program that contradicted the official position, including that he once said in the program that “said Taiwan is China’s inherent territory is not “Accurately”, “The army under the command of the party is called the SS”, and revealed that he had visited the Yasukuni Shrine on August 15 of a certain year-the anniversary of the end of the Sino-Japanese war, and said that the memorial was “not War criminals”.
This institution affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences published a long article on Weibo criticizing Gao Xiaosong’s numerous historical interpretation remarks in the online talk show “Xiao Song Qi Tan” for “smearing historical culture” and “historical nihilism”. “Private goods” and denounced them for “hiding evil intentions.”
Gao Xiaosong’s other historical remarks that were listed and refuted in the article include “washing white” Chiang Kai-shek as an “anti-Japanese faction”, calling Zhang Xueliang “leading to the deeds of September 18th”, and calling Ming general Zheng Chenggong “a great man who has been replaced by a fake”. “Japanese pirates” and so on; the article also criticized Gao Xiaosong for touting India’s “democracy” on the show.
“Xiao Song Qi Tan” is an online talk show launched by the Chinese online video platform iQiyi in 2014. Chinese media reported that it has an average of more than 5 million views per episode. The show was suspended at the end of 2016, and several episodes were briefly updated at the beginning of 2017, and no further updates have been made since.
There is no news about the reason why China’s official history agency issued an article criticizing Gao Xiaosong’s remarks after a few years. However, before and after the article was published, Chinese media reported that “Xiaosong Qi Tan” had been removed from the Chinese online platform; it was initiated and merged by Gao Xiaosong. The Beijing branch of Xiaoshuguan, the public welfare library that serves as the curator, announced that it is temporarily closed due to “equipment failure.”
On Sina Weibo, Gao Xiaosong’s official certified account was shown as “the user does not exist”, and there are reports that he changed his account to a non-certified account “_晓松”.
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It seems that China has recently stepped up its suppression of so-called “inferior artists” on the Internet. The usual method is to “block the entire network”-including related works being removed from the shelves, discussions on Weibo related topics closed, and names listed as the key to banning searches. Words etc.
Last week, mainland Chinese artist Zhao Wei was suddenly banned, and many of her works in or directed by her were taken off the shelves, and her name was deleted from the list of the main creators of the related work information.
On August 27, the China Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice requesting ten aspects to rectify the chaos of the “rice circle”, including the implementation of the cancellation of the star artist list, strict control of star brokerage companies, prohibition of mutual tearing of information, and prohibition of inducing fans Consumption, strictly control the participation of minors, etc.
There is no news that there is a correlation between the bans of different artists, but the outside world has been speculating that Zhao Wei is closely related to Alibaba founder Jack Ma, suspected of it or involved in political turmoil-Ma Yun criticized Chinese regulators in a bold speech last year Later, he himself and the fintech group Ant Group he founded were pressured by the authorities.
Zhao Wei, who was punished by the China Securities Regulatory Commission for her operations in the capital market in 2018, reportedly invested more than 500 million U.S. dollars by voting in a company under the Ali Group in 2014.
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Zhao Wei and her husband Huang Youlong
Gao Xiaosong joined Alibaba Group with a high salary
Gao Xiaosong also joined Alibaba Group in 2015 with a high salary as the chairman of Alibaba Music Technology Co., Ltd. Earlier this year, it was reported that he had stepped down from this post.
Gao Xiaosong, who was born in a family of high-ranking intellectuals, became popular in the 1990s. He is a representative of China’s “campus folk”. He has created influential works such as “You at the same table” and directed movies.
But as a well-known figure, Gao Xiaosong also arouses controversy from time to time, and his relationship with officials and netizens is delicate. In a live broadcast event hosted by “People’s Daily” last year, he was vilified and attacked by netizens, causing the live broadcast to be interrupted.
Netizens’ attacks focused on Gao Xiaosong’s past remarks, including his claim that “the United States is China’s great benefactor”, “the four great inventions are all fake”, and so on; while Gao Xiaosong’s supporters called this a “Cultural Revolution resurgence.”
In the Weibo post of the Chinese Academy of History last week, a large number of netizens also criticized Gao Xiaosong, some criticized his nationality dispute, and some netizens directly pointed out that he and the “Zhao Weis” would “endanger national security”.
Jack Ma himself has evaluated Gao Xiaosong in the past.
“The various structures of his knowledge are messy,” Ma Yun said in a speech in the past year, mocking Gao Xiaosong who was present at the time.
“I don’t know how many are true and how many are false, but it sounds very comfortable…at least it makes me think that the problem can be thought of in this way.”