Drama’s Censored “Exposing” Outfits Spark Mixed Reactions

Chinese drama “The Empress of China” starring Fan Bingbing recently garnered a variety of opinions from netizens.

In various screenshots from the drama, many believed there was an issue with the women’s traditional outfits.

The women showed excessive cleavage that eventually lead to censorship.

However, some hit back at this sentiment.

Many believed the look to be historically accurate.

Despite this, there was another version of the drama released with censored outfits.

The version with added clothing covering their chests was aired in Korea.

However, some netizens provided examples of how this look was more representative of the time.

Netizens expressed their mixed reactions in the comments.

• “It only looks that way because the clips were gathered into gifs. If you just watched it as a drama, it would seem fine. It’s historically accurate, so why are they acting like they have trauma over women’s chests, freaking out and censoring? It’s kind of funny.”
• “Oh, so it’s historically accurate… looks similar to Western clothing lol”
• “It’s not even revealing enough to need censorship.”
• “I liked that they went all-in on accurate costumes, hair, and makeup, so it’s disappointing.”
• “Interesting that it’s historically accurate.”