W G Ehrman Esq Political Adviser
Dea
William,
CONFIDENTIAL
R&R.
Office of the
British Senior Representative
Sino-British Joint Liaison Group
FILM CENSORSHIP.
24 June 1992
4KC 30011
TUL 1997
см
M Bunke
о
"HER FATAL WAYS" PART IV
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We spoke briefly about Hong Kong telno 1585.
As I told you,
I am rather worried that a film lampooning Deng Xiaoping in the sort of ways which the producers of this series seem to favour could have a quite disproportionate affect on Chinese attitudes. Deng is not a Head of State of course: but in many ways he functions as if he was.
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I recognise that there is very little that can be done by use of the law. But is it really inconceivable, given the potential seriousness of this, that the organisers could be dissuaded from
I do not of making their film quite as gratuitously offensive?
course know anything about them or their motives. I suppose it is conceivable that a political row is their real objective, in which case there would not be much to be done. But short of this, is there no way of approaching them?
Yuus
Син
Tay.
A C Galsworthy
Cc:
PF Ricketts Esq, HKD, FCO
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