Mulan and China's growing cultural reach
Disney’s new live-action remake of Mulan faces renewed calls for boycott. Today, ahead of the movie’s release in China, freelance writer Frankie Huang on why that is, and what it says about China’s growing cultural reach.
Activists are calling for a boycott of the newly released Mulan remake, after revelations that it was partly filmed in Xinjiang, a province of China known, through extensive reporting, for the detention and persecution of Uighur Muslims.
Today, freelance writer Frankie Huang on the controversy and what it reveals about China's influence on Western culture.