{"id":32566,"date":"2021-05-28T23:10:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/28\/friends-the-one-where-china-censors-its-guest-stars"},"modified":"2021-05-28T23:10:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T14:10:19","slug":"friends-reunion-the-one-where-china-censors-its-guest-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32566","title":{"rendered":"Friends reunion: the one where China censors its guest stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers say scenes featuring Lady Gaga, boyband BTS and Justin Bieber are missing from Chinese version<\/p>\n<p>For many Chinese millennials, the US sitcom Friends was a window to the American way of life. Teachers would use the show to help students learn English. Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai have Friends-themed Central Perk cafes. So when news that the original cast were to hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2021\/may\/26\/friends-the-reunion-review-the-one-that-was-a-nostalgia-fest-and-no-more\">a reunion special<\/a> nearly 20 years after the show was first introduced into China, diehard fans were excited, and some of China\u2019s biggest online streaming platforms bought the rights to broadcast the show.<\/p>\n<p>But eagle-eyed viewers complained on Thursday that some of the much-talked-about scenes in the original 104-minute runtime were missing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/28\/friends-the-one-where-china-censors-its-guest-stars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewers say scenes featuring Lady Gaga, boyband BTS and Justin Bieber are missing from Chinese versionFor many Chinese millennials, the US sitcom Friends was a window to the American way of life. Teachers would use the show to help students learn Engli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,955,458,50,71,519,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bts","category-censorship","category-china","category-culture","category-television-radio","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32567,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32566\/revisions\/32567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}