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Right, so it's not a ban on time travel stories but a ban on time travel stories with no in universe explanation of how the time travel happens. It's why my main disagreement is with the "China ban time travel" because it omitting specific details making the "ban" worse than it actually is.

Speaking of Scarlet Heart, as much as I love that drama, the inexplicable time travel bothered me to no end. It felt like a necessity to put a modern girl into a historical setting. It remains forgotten until the end where she's suddenly back in the present time after dying in the past, another thing that goes unexplained.

The logic still applies though. To say there's a ban when it's simply a regulation of what product is released is exactly what's going on. Time traveling dramas and movies are released every year, all which have gone through "government censorship" the same way there's some central authority that manages the quality of food that is released to the public. While we may have different stances on censorship, but my main point is that to say a ban on time travel exists when time traveling stories continue to be made and released doesn't match reality.

Are a subset of time traveling stories banned from release? Yes. But not all. Same way that disfigured apples are banned from being sold on the market. It's a subset of apples banned, not all apples. Same way it's a subset of time traveling stories not all. The statement made of time traveling stories being banned is a blanket statement that encompasses all time traveling.

It just bothers me that for at least a decade the message that "China banned time travel" is repeated but every year there are a couple of time travel movies and dramas released.

Thanks for finding a source. But reading it just sounds like guidelines to ensure there's a distinction between fact and fiction. It doesn't sound like a ban.

Even the articles you sited in the earlier post only refers to specific time travel stories that are banned (Back to the Future, Doctor Who, etc.). Hi Mom, released last year, is a time traveling movie which if there was a ban (as per the 2011 and 2015 articles would suggest) couldn't exist.

This is like saying apples are banned from being sold everywhere when the reality is that apples that do not pass the vetting process (like being rotten, disfigured, etc.) are banned.

Can you cite the exact rules on the "time travel ban"? Because I've watched a majority of time travel cdramas that have come out in the past couple of years and if there was a ban, there wouldn't be these time traveling stories. I hear this ban all the time, but it doesn't match up with the reality of so many time traveling dramas released every year since I've started hearing the existence of this ban. I even asked my friend in China a couple years ago about the ban on time travel and she couldn't even find the source of this claim.

Legally Romance is a time traveling story. While they have an in universe explanation of why it happens, anyone watching it knows it's a time traveling story. They categorize dramas like these as 穿越. While it has a broader meaning of being able to travel into different universes (such as games), but it also encompasses time travel. I just saw a video on Douyin where they list Waiting For You In The Future as one of the top rated 穿越 dramas in the past 10 years.

If anything, it sounds like they're simply regulating time travel dramas the same way they regulate historical dramas. In which case it's not a ban since a ban means that you cannot produce or broadcast at all.

It's technically the third story in a trilogy, but each story in the Condor trilogy is stand alone. The first two are more connected, as the Return of the Condor Heroes tells the story of the son of the villain in the Legend of the Condor Heroes. This one takes place a century or two after Return of the Condor Heroes where all the characters in the previous two stories are legends and don't play a major role in the story.