If you find yourself the subject of a nationwide internet backlash, the most natural reaction might be to lie low for a while.
But Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao probably doesn't have that option. When Zhao won the best director award at theGolden Globes on Feb.
28 — a first for an Asian woman —the moment was as widely celebrated in China as it was in the U.S., with Chinese news outlets and social media users rallying around her success as a source of national pride.
Within a day, however, the mood dramatically darkened. Internet sleuths unearthed old interviews in which Zhao appeared critical of her country, and before long, debate and vitriol over her "attitude towards China" was spreading just as fast as the adulation had.
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