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David Moser

David Moser

David Moser has taught translation and linguistics at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, and is currently a program advisor and English consultant at CCTV in Beijing.
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  • Controlling Chinese Television

    David Moser Series: China Stands Up
    2004-08-06
    The 2003 World Press Freedom report put out by the group Reporters without Borders ranks China 161st among 166 nations, somewhere between Iran and North Korea. But Chinese television fare, at least, no longer consists of the prudish melodramas and clumsy indoctrination programs of the Maoist past. Casual observers of today's freewheeling offerings of sex, crime, drugs, violence, and banal game shows on Chinese TV might come away with the impression that most of the shackles have been removed from televised content.... read
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