ABSTRACT
What are recourses to understanding the Chinese state as a repressor and regulator with regards to censorship? What strategies do practitioners undertake to negotiate censorship? What are the implications of commercialization for censorship practices? Using the popular drama serial Snail House (Woju) as a case study, this chapter aims to investigate the articulations related to its censorship. Drawing from fieldwork interviews, and theorizing censorship in light of the Foucauldian approach to power, Judith Butler's discussion of censorship, and Laclau's concept of articulation, the author questions the prohibitive model of censorship and examines the problematics of Chinese censorship practices and television programming.
