A Chinese state-backed newspaper urges people to stop playing a popular card game, arguing it is addictive and distracting people from their work.
Chinese state-owned newspaper Beijing Youth Daily is leading the charge in denouncing a popular poker-style card game.
Now, state-owned newspaper Beijing Youth Daily has slammed the game as "decadent", amid reports state employees have been urged to stop playing the game. It is common for businessmen to play the game with local government officials as they wine and dine in the hopes of picking up nuggets of useful information while chatting informally.Pan Wang, an associate professor of Chinese and Asian studies at the University of New South Wales, said the game was a reinvention of traditional Chinese card games.
In April 2023, the Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog censured one of its officials in the eastern province of Anhui for playing guandan during a training course. The commencement speech went viral on Chinese social media, including on the WeChat platform, but Professor Huang said most people did not take it seriously."He might be influential in his field, but people didn't think that this is something that they need to take seriously."Professor Huang said that now a state-owned newspaper had echoed the professor's strident criticism of guandan, citizens would take note.
In 2014, guandan was approved as an "intangible cultural heritage item" of the city of Huai'an in Jiangsu.
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