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In recent years, China has put up regulatory obstacles to prevent big Hollywood movies from being released in the country. This is the best option after an explicit ban. However, this hurts the American film industry, since China is a major market for its films. That was not the case before. But that all changed when 2009's "Avatar" raked in an unprecedented $200 million for 20th Century Fox, and then the big studios began doing everything they could to secure a Chinese release. And to pass the country's strict censors, they had to remove anything the Communist Party might find distasteful, including the obvious ones like nudity and sex, but also the less obvious ones like homosexuality, black actors, images of recognizable American symbols like the Statue of Liberty, and so on. Even as China has tightened censorship, it has tried to match the scale and scope of Hollywood epics in government-funded projects, and there have been hits like 'The Battle at Changjin La...