European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1965 the stars and stripes Page 17 chinese to an audience 200 million a photo chinese to Crew with modern japanese by Jeff Bradley associated press the new status Symbol among chivas Rich peasants is the Cai Dian or color to in which every household has a color Black and White is not Good first introduced in television is now thriving in communist from where antennas snare capitalist images out of Hong to tibets satellite despite poor melodramatic acting and what sometimes seems like inaction chinese to claims a regular audience of 200 chinese factories produced 10 million sets last 1 million in but this fell so far Short of demand that people Are paying about Cash six months in Advance for Small imported that a years salary for most the nations first color to Village is in Pingyu co dirty Ouide peking where a Farmers now in the construction business have used their profits to treat neighbors to color from sets a decade China now has 40 by government two state networks and 52 major local stations reach areas with about 60 percent of the billion the two set family has emerged in households where ciders want raucous peking opera and youngsters favor soccer or a Hong Kong a typical Day offers about 10 hours of news and lectures and travel Ogues about the great Yangtze Gorges and other in one service a chinese family demonstrates How to Cope with knives and cups of Coffee and other hazards of a Western including hacking through a great Lump of meat an alien custom in a land of bit size commercials began in 1979 and promote items As diverse As Tiptop anti aging Oral liquid and wristwatches like those worn by chivas Antarctic a 30second spot costs a favorite old movie is new year made in 1956 from a Story by la Xun in which a Young played by famed actress Bai Dies in the Snow after losing two several Homes and a son eaten by a chivas to University teaches physics and 15 other subjects to registered on one wintry saturday two of peking channels were off the air while a communist party cadre occupied the third extolling economic our country int capitalist or its social he exclaimed to those sceptical or confused about chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping pragmatic broadcasting is tightly controlled by the ministry of radio and but propaganda is scant com pared with the 196676 cultural revolution when chairman Mao tse tunes former actress Jiang used to As a political Kong a tvs International acknowledged a Lack of technical expertise and people complain that to drama follows a when the talk is of its by a at the Waves crash on the when things Are theres always lightning and a playwrights should know More about in the chinese stylized acting is exaggerated the Pellan family with their highly prize 3yearold color and to directors have failed to adjust to their More intimate Many plays have Mantovan like soundtracks in which the dubbed dialogue is delivered in a reverential the zoom overworked and the meaningful look turned into a its All too says a peking who craves a return of garrisons an american series about convicts used As spies in world War it was taken off apparently because officials feared it taught people How to commit contracts and Swap agreements bring fast european wildlife documentaries from the american lbs and Britain jewel in the peking crime rate fell last year on nights a ctr screened a japanese serial about a women volleyball the current hit is a Kung fun series from Hong the Story of Chen More than 700 to films were produced last compared with eight in under the auspices of the China National television film apart from the occasional kiss taboo in chinese programs where even the most alluring actresses Are covered up to the neck imported material is devoid of chinese dramas frequently show a posse of naked boys going for a and news programs veer toward the such As before and after pictures of Wang a boy in Hubei province who was born with three the most popular 10 minutes of the the chinese is near the end of the 35minute news when foreign clips Are the first satellite delivered foreign news was Broad cast in 1980 but the volume and variety has increased in the past from famine in Ethiopia to the Rea Gan Mondale election world news is presented but with an emphasis on violence and vaccinations in War in trag Edy in Bhopal and disarmament Hopes in Geneva the glimpses Are Brief but revelatory for a nation kept in ideological blinders for a ctr offers no criticism of government leaders or and Only peking version of the sin Vietnam Ese Border conflict is Domestic news invariably includes leaders shaking hands with Trade Harvest factory output and holes Dag for new con plants opened for making color tvs or pre serving Quail television has become a unifying Force in a nation that includes moslem koreans and 600 voiceover commentary and slow Speed dubbed Dia Logue is in peking which most people under stand since the communists made it the official nation Al language 36 years the 7 news has two announcers in Western a Man and an electrified weather Chart includes Hong Kong and and the Snappy Pace limits most items to 30 chivas Best known to personality Seldom appears on sportscaster song six songs High pitched hello viewers is known to even Remote regions where to video cassettes Are brought in by motorcycle or bicycle and peasants pay 10 cents for an evenings if people can go to work Happy the morning after watch ing our then we feel very Kong