Talk:1001 app/@comment-36277500-20200112174659/@comment-36277500-20200112232139

Yes, but also Chinese school rules are strict in general. Japanese and Korean students are focused on their studies as well, but they are "allowed" to have crushes, as long as they aren't shamelessly showing off in public. Teachers in Japan allow such signs of relationship like making bento for your boyfriend or giving him Valentine chocolate. But hugging, kissing and other unambiguously erotic physical contact in public (class, corridor) is shameless. Rules in Korea are similar - as long as you aren't shameless in school, your private life after school is your concern.

In Chinese schools these rules are even stricter, invigilating even the private spheres like thoughts and feelings - no crushes in school (I watched many school horrors of "gakkou-no-kaidan" genre, both from China and Japan, so I have comparison). The rules are broken of course, but Chinese authorities wouldn't like to promote it.

Also, considering homosexuality... Although in Japan and Korea homosexuality isn't welcome in public (what you do in private is your concern, as long as you aren't coming out in public), and homosexual kids are bullied in schools, the orientation itself isn't forbidden by law. But I'm not so sure about Chinese Republic, where many human rights are broken - officially homosexuality was depenalized in 1997 and isn't considered as deviation since 2001, but homosexual persons still aren't treated as equals to heterosexuals yet.

That's the reason of the whole censorship.