Vlogger in Lolita Dress Outside Sino-Japanese War Museum Draws Ire
While social platforms have become an accessible means to gain instant stardom for many so-called online influencers and celebrities, they’ve also become a medium under intense scrutiny. Witty Sister Dang often shares choreographed dance routines on video site Bilibili, where she has amassed more than 6 million subscribers. Whenever she posts new content, compliments flood her channel. But many of her followers turned against the vlogger over the weekend after she published a video of herself dancing in front of the Lüshun Museum in the northeastern city of Dalian, as the museum was founded during Japan’s colonization of the region after the Sino-Japanese War in 1894. Read more Sixth Tone
ARP Picks up France Rights to China’s ‘Streetwise’
French distribution company ARP has picked up rights to “Streetwise,” the Chinese film that will have its world premiere next week at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Un Certain Regard section. The story follows a small-town youth who becomes the henchman to a debt-collector. His life is complicated by a cold and estranged parent-child relationship, and an ambiguous relationship with a young woman. Read more Variety
