His day job is working at Shanghai Daily, a Chinese state-owned English language newspaper. Reports on China is his side project.
I don’t really see how him commenting on China’s lukewarm reception of live-action Snow White counts as anti-woke or whatever (BTW the term ‘woke’ or ‘anti-woke’ sounds so fucking stupid, meaningless, and lacking analysis). China has no history of using Africans as slaves, so it has literally no stakes in American interracial conflicts. I also don’t think Chinese people have any obligation to watch Disney slop, and would much prefer their ticket money funds Chinese culture and films than Disney.
It’s just kind of funny how a character named Snow White for their white skin can somehow be cast as a non-white character. It’s sort of fundamental. Ultimately, Disney’s live-action princess remakes are just cheap, low-effort moves to try to use non-white faces to capture a broader audience and appear falsely progressive with no actual regard to the art, culture, or fighting actual racism.
This remake has the same issues that casting a black person for Ariel did. Instead of writing or adapting a new story for a Latin American princess, or an African princess, from the original culture, they instead decide to shove them into a white European story as if non-white cultures have nothing of worth to write about.
Also remember that a lot of people, including Chinese, are boycotting this movie because of actress Gal Gadot’s pro-Zionist views. That is definitely a good thing.
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