In mid-April 2011 media reported that Chinese government has prohibited showing (on TV, theaters, but also in novels and comics) stories which deal with time time travel and alternative history. The official argument is that such stories introduce frivolity to serious historical method. Of course, we know what it is about — even a fictional escape to an alternative reality is considered too dangerous. But I think this is a good sign for Chinese people, like those in power still see this as a danger. We in the West don’t need such a prohibition. We automatically assume that it’s not possible.

Slavoj Žižek: A New Kind of Communism (44:18)