Censorship was just as widespread if not worse in Taiwan before the military dictatorship fell away. The smash hit "When Will You Return?" by the cross-strait superstar Teresa Tang was censored: The titular "you" pronounced in Mandarin rhymes with the word for "army." "When Will The Army Return?" was never going to be a hit with the military dictatorship.
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