t.co/VX8YZDAQDbpic.twitter.com/mXie1ft7R7― STOMP (@stompsingapore) January 1, 2015When the show resumed, viewers could only see the leading ladies from the neck up.Goddess~ So gonna watch this during sem break~The Empress of China! pic.twitter.com/ceuon8b9Qa― Lee Hong (@Nandopaws) January 4, 2015Apparently, the ban was to punish the show's producers for using racy costumes for the actresses."Many viewers speculated the suspension was a punishment given by the country's television regulators for the much-discussed revealing costumes of female characters on the show, which stirred online debate in which the female characters were dubbed 'squeezed breasts'," the official news agency Xinhua reported via Hollywood Reporter.However, fans who eagerly awaited the return of the show, were disappointed when they could only see the actresses as "talking heads".Apparently,Nike Air Max 2015 Blue UK, the cleavage cut will be applicable for all the 17 episodes that will be aired on Hunan TV starting from 1 January.The censorship has angered many fans and some of them expressed their disappointment on social media.Meanwhile, Fan Bingbing, the lead actress and the show's producer, posted on her Weibo (China's equivalent of microblogging site Twitter) "Don't lower your head! The crown will drop! Don't cry! Bad people will laugh!" Drama For Everreported.The Empress of China, dramatically narrates the saga of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China, who ruled during the Tang Dyansty from 618 to 907.
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