Making mountains out of molehills? Avatar-branded rocks stir controversy in China
Some context, in case you haven’t been paying attention…
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So – predictably, things haven’t gone quite as planned. In addition to the usual kvetching about the importation of Western popular culture, there is also a competing interest in Huangshan who claims that Cameron namechecked their [...]
James Cameron vs. China: The Na’vi are Tibetans?
Newsweek speculates that China’s uncertainty (wait – didn’t they name a mountain range after the movie?) about Avatar has less to do with its usurpation of local cinema fare (namely a recent Confucius biopic starring Chow Yun-Fat) and more to do with uncomfortable parallels between the Na’vi and Earth’s Tibetans, who are not exactly blue [...]
Pandora is Far, But China is…Also Pretty Far
I would really like to visit Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, in China. That is the place with all the crazy towers of rock and lots of fog and foliage.
But I don’t want to take the Avatar tour.
You Sold Out Your Mountain?
Zhangjiajie is trying to capitalize on the movie’s popularity in several ways.
The municipal government website has [...]
