BEIJING: Chinese censors should pay more attention to public opinion, a state-run newspaper argued after an online backlash over the removal of all cleavage from a TV show about China’s only female emperor.
Empress of China, about the Tang dynasty ruler Wu Zetian, who came to power at the end of the 7th century, was abruptly taken off the air soon after its debut on satellite station Hunan TV late last month, ostensibly for “technical reasons”.
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