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A fact from Eternity in Flames appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 November 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Eternity in Flames, now commonly shown in Chinese schools, was banned during the Cultural Revolution?

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The result was: promoted by JuniperChill talk 22:23, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Eternity in Flames, now commonly shown in Chinese schools, was banned during the Cultural Revolution?

Source: Schools: Zheng, Wang (2016). Finding Women in the State. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 116. doi:10.1525/california/9780520292284.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-520-29228-4.; banned: King, Richard (2013). Milestones on a Golden Road: Writing for Chinese Socialism, 1945-80. Vancouver: UBC Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-7748-2374-6.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Come In (Weatherday album)

Created by Crisco 1492 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 692 past nominations.

— Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:49, 19 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Length, date, hook, QPQ, close paraphrase check ok. Article says pulled from circulation, not banned, but in this context this is a very narrow semantic difference, so ok. --Soman (talk) 21:54, 19 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to promote this, but I don't see anywhere in the article that film was banned during the Cultural Revolution. The closest I can see is "Eternity in Flames was removed from circulation at this time". I'm sure that in circulation means not in general use, rather than banned outright. JuniperChill (talk) 21:45, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging Crisco 1492 and Soman JuniperChill (talk) 21:48, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JuniperChill. King gives "unavailable during the Cultural Revolution but re-released shortly after it ended." Himmat magazine (probably not visible in the snippet) gives that all of Zhao Dan's films were banned, which as a blanket statement includes Eternity in Flames. Chinese Literature gives that "almost all films from before the cultural revolution were banned". Zheng discusses at length how much Jiang Qing - one of the "Gang of Four" who led the cultural revolution - despised the film. "Ban" is definitely supported. However, as King was more conservative in his statement, I paraphrased with a similar level of restraint. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:08, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great!, I'll go ahead and promote this to prep 5 then. JuniperChill (talk) 22:22, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]