Why do the Chinese hate time travel?

First the Chinese banned time travel stories from TV and the movies. Now comes the news, as reported in the Discovery News article Time Travel Impossible, Say Scientists, that Chinese scientists have proved that time travel is physically impossible.

Professor Du Shengwang of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  and his team proved this by measuring a single photon and demonstrating that it could not travel faster than the speed of light. As they said, "The study, which showed that single photons also obey the speed limit c, confirms Einstein's causality; that is, an effect cannot occur before its cause."

Er... OK... I'll admit that I actually don't know what the heck that is supposed to mean, but I'll take their word on it. 

Besides, I have a much simpler proof that time travel is impossible. Having carefully observed the record of numerous historical events, I've noticed that they have not turned into temporal tourist traps. Let's face it, if time travel were possible the soldiers landing on Normandy during the D-Day invasion would have been met with hawkers selling "I went to WWII and all I got was this lousey t-shirt" and other such tacky merchandise. Ergo, time travel doesn't happen so it must be impossible. Tautology aside -- QED.

(via RealClearScience) 
 

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"The time-travel drama is becoming a hot theme for TV and films. But its content and the exaggerated performance style are questionable. Many stories are totally made-up and are made to strain for an effect of novelty. The producers and writers are treating the serious history in a frivolous way, which should by no means be encouraged anymore."

Wait... they make up things in time travel stories? Are they trying to claim there's no such thing as flux capacitors or killer robots that have come back to protect their future revolution against mankind? Say it aint so, Joe!

Actually, it turns out that time travel stories have recently became a hugely popular genre in Chinese movies and TV shows. Their plots are rather boiler-plate, with a protagonist somehow or another twanged back to the distant, historical past of China. They milk comedy from fish out of water situations, and eventually have their hero/heroine fall crazy mad in love with somebody they meet in the past. 

China Hush, in the article "No more time-travel drama", authority says it disrespects history, reports that the government's General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television is unhappy with the time travel stories. The quote that leads this article is their comment on the matter.  Apparently they believe that the liberty with which these shows treat China's past is disrespectful of its history (and if you've ever heard a Chinese bang on about their 5,000 years of history you'll know they are a bit maniacal on that point).

In spite of their popularity, or perhaps because of it, the Bureau has called for a halt to the making of these types of shows. In addition, the Bureau has called a halt to making new versions of the Four Great Classical Novels, arguing that good versions of them have already been filmed and that modern versions are rushed and inaccurate.

If you ask me, the General Bureau of Radio, Film and Television sound like a bunch of cranky old grouches. It will serve them right if the time travel stories get replaced with idiotic American Infomercials.

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