Liu Yifei, the star of Disney’s new live-action remake of its 1998
cartoon/Mulan/, posted a message on Weibo last year expressing support
for the Hong Kong police as they were brutally suppressingprotests in
the city
<https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n16/chaohua-wang/hong-kong-v.-beijing>.
Her comments prompted an online campaign to boycott the movie. The
campaign received new impetus this month when it was discovered that
parts of the film had been shot in Xinjiang in 2018, when it was already
widely known that more than a million people, mostly Uyghurs, were being
detained in‘re-education’ facilities
<https://lrb.co.uk/blog/2018/august/where-is-rahile-dawut>, subject to
brainwashing, violence and intimidation. The movie credits thank the
Communist Party’s publicity department and the Public Security Bureau
for the Turpan prefecture, where at least ten internment camps are
operating. ‘It has generated a lot of publicity,’ Disney’s chief
financial officer,Christine McCarthy
<https://variety.com/2020/film/news/disney-cfo-filming-mulan-in-xinjiang-problematic-1234766342/>,
said yesterday. ‘Let’s leave it at that.’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2020/september/boycottmulan
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