"Chloé Zhao Backlash Will Test China's New Era of Hollywood Censorship | Zhao said, "It goes back to when I was a teenager in China, being in a place where there are lies everywhere." Teenage angst and authority-questioning might be a universal experience from Northern China to North Dakota Indian reservations, but "a place where there are lies everywhere" is an almost perfectly corrosive soundbite to have floating around in an authoritarian state bent on shaping and controlling all national narratives..."
