The YouTube mainland Chinese series I've been watching (set 1979–1992) has a snippet featuring two of the teenage boys (the nephew of one of the two families sharing the same courtyard, and the son of the other family) playing truant and running off to Shanghai to visit the oldest boy who is at university there.
This triggers a huge scare, with the two families worried sick that they might've been taken away by child abductors. (This, in itself, is most interesting: that the problem of child abduction was still present in 1983.)
The boys are grounded: made to stay in one room to do their homework and revision, not allowed to go outside without the permission of a grown-up.
The oldest boy comes back from university for the winter break, and is surprised to find them locked (from the inside) into the room, supposedly behaving themselves.
When he goes in there, he finds the television set (a fairly new concept then) a bit warm.
That is a bit careless of the grown-ups, isn't it, leaving the TV set in the same room?
(China, 1983)
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