‘Nomadland’ director faces backlash in native China
Golden Globe winner hailed as ‘pride of China’, then vilified after old comments surface
published : 6 Mar 2021 at 13:45
BEIJING: A nationalist backlash against the award-winning American road movie “Nomadland” has cast doubt over the film’s China release after social media users and state media questioned its director Chloe Zhao’s loyalty to her birth country.
Zhao became the first Asian woman in history to win…