What is it with the pandas?

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Stop Hollywood!

A few weeks after artist Zhao Bandi’s failed attempt to organize a boycott of the animated film Kungfu Panda (see Danwei report), Netease.com reports that an American professor at Peking University has been calling for a boycott of the Hollywood film.

According to the Netease report, the professor has been demonstrating outside a cinema, saying that Chinese children should be seeing the Fuwa in the runup to the Olympics, not Hollywood’s Kungfu Panda.

The professor, named Tim Lies, has apparently written an explanation of his boycott, posted on a Chinese blog called ‘One World, One Dream’:

American Against Kongfu Panda in Beijing!

By Tim Lies / Li Xiao Long

BEIJING–We boycotted the Hollywood kongfu Panda tonight at Hua Xing in haidian District. Many gathered to gain literature, take photos, and ask questions. I am an American teacher at Peking University, and I call on all China to boycott Hollywood movies. Tonight I held a picket sign and passed out back-and-front translated leaflets.

After 15 minutes, the cinema owner and manager forced us off the property, and our protest continued on the street corner. Many more gathered to read our handout paper explaining the reasons for the boycott. I gave out nearly 300 in five minutes! The owner called the police.

A middle-aged man asked, “Why are you doing this?”

“First let’s follow the RMB path,” I said. “Dreamworks made the film. That means the money flows into the pockets of those who hate us and are out to destroy us. And it targets our children….”

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