{"id":7701,"date":"2011-02-20T04:02:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T04:02:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:40:17","slug":"documentary-shows-aids-discrimination-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=7701","title":{"rendered":"Documentary Shows AIDS Discrimination in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

HIV\/AIDS has been a taboo subject in China since the country\u2019s first reported case in 1985. For years, public health departments reported that only homosexuals or promiscuous citizens were at risk\u2014a policy that aggravated the spread of HIV\/AIDS among heterosexuals and propagated the idea that only society\u2019s outcasts could contract the disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tainted blood transfusions in the late 1980s infected an estimated 22,000 Chinese, the U.N. reports, causing the government to take notice. But it wasn\u2019t until 2003 that Wen Jiabao became China\u2019s first premier to shake hands with an HIV-positive victim.<\/p>\n

Director Gu Changwei (\u201cFarewell My Concubine\u201d), winner of the Berlinale\u2019s 2005 Silver Bear, resolved to cast real HIV\/AIDS victims in all extra and supporting roles for his 2011 film, \u201cTale of Magic.\u201d Gu secured government funding to commission filmmaker Zhao Liang to document this process and expose the ongoing discrimination such victims face.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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