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17.
from?
The NCNA is believed to be contemplating a new
magazine "The New China Digest", to capture the market for Hong Kong publications such as "Cheng Ming" and "The Seventies" which are left-wing but critical of the Beijing leadership.
The NCNA has already had some success in muting their criticism
of Beijing : the
the "Cheng Ming Daily" closed in July (para 17, July 1981 Report) and "The Seventies" has been under financial
pressure.
18.
The Film Culture Centre of Hong Kong, an organisation with possible KMT connections, was refused permission to hold a "Taipei Cinema 1981" film festival in the City Hall and a film made in Taiwan, "If I were genuine", which was to have been shown in the festival, was banned entirely by the Censor because of its political slant. The Film Culture Centre is now seeking permission to show a film "The Wilderness", which was produced in China under the direction of the daughter of Marshall Ye Jiangying. The film has two versions, one for audiences in China, the second for those elsewhere.
19.
Communist cinemas in Hong Kong are at present showing a European film entitled "Cannibal Holocaust", a production worthy
of its title, Audiences are large and rewarding. The communist press has however castigated the organisers for having more concern for profit than ideology. The rebuttal of this criticism has been the claim that, since communist films draw only small audiences and films made in Taiwan may not be shown, there is no alternative if communist film circles are to avoid yet further financial loss.
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20.
Communist organisations in Hong Kong are to celebrate
the 70th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution on 10 October.
These celebrations, unlike those of the KMT (para 22, July 1981 Report), are expected to be modest apart from a commemorative function at the Sunbeam Theatre.
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/ para 21.