“Blocking references to ‘Nomadland’ underscores China’s new power position,” said Ms. Kokas, referring to the online censorship, which was previously reported by Variety. “As the world’s largest market, there is much less need to bring Hollywood studio films into the market.”
Until recently, few in China had heard of Ms. Zhao, 38.
Born in Beijing, she went to boarding school in London, to high school in California and ultimately to film school at New York University. Before “Nomadland,” Ms. Zhao gained recognition for the critically acclaimed art films “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” (2015) and “The Rider” (2017).
In China, though, she was best known as the stepdaughter of the popular comic actress Song Dandan, who in 1997 married Ms. Zhao’s father, the former head of a Chinese state-owned steel company.
Ms. Zhao has spoken about what she sees as her shifting identity, a product, she said, of years spent moving around the world. She has described her Chinese heritage as part of that identity.
In a recent profile in New York magazine, Ms. Zhao referred to northerners in China as “my own people” and described herself as being “from China.” Global Times, a Chinese state-backed nationalist tabloid, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that Disney had said that Ms. Zhao was a Chinese national.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/world/asia/chloe-zhao-nomadland-china.html
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