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 [...]
