CHINA RETALIATES AGAINST 3 STUDIOS.Byline: Hollywood Hollywood. 1 Community within the city of Los Angeles, S Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica Mts.; inc. 1903, consolidated with Los Angeles 1910. Reporter The Chinese government Ever since Republic of China founded in January 1st, 1912, China has had several regional and national governments. List
The Chinese Chinese, subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages), which is also sometimes grouped with the Tai, or Thai, languages in a Sinitic subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language stock. Ministry of Radio, Film and Television singled out ``Seven Years in Tibet'' (TriStar), ``Kundun'' (Disney) and ``Red Corner'' (MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. ) as films that ``viciously attack China and hurt Chinese people's feelings,'' in a memo made public Friday. Disney, MGM and TriStar are targets of the Sept. 29 memo that was addressed to several Chinese film offices, including the China Film Archives, the Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary. Film Festival Office and the China Film Corp. It bans those three studios from doing business in China at least temporarily. ``Although all kinds of efforts have been made, those three American companies are still pushing out the above films,'' the memo states. ``In order to protect Chinese national overall interests, it has been decided that all business cooperation with these three companies to be ceased temporarily without exception.'' |
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