In recent years, there have been many turmoil in the entertainment industry, especially the image of celebrities and artists has been constantly "overturned", and the mainland has finally taken strict measures again to purify our cultural environment. This not only includes the removal of some inferior artists' film and television works, but also strictly prohibits these people from returning to any programs, ensuring that these problematic artists cannot re-enter the entertainment industry through other channels. The most striking is the latest "nationality restriction order", which directly targets actors with foreign nationality, prohibiting them from continuing to shoot film, television and variety shows in Chinese mainland.
The public response to this initiative has been generally positive, believing that it is a necessary step to maintain the country's cultural security. But this has also put some foreign artists who have made a lot of money in the Chinese market into an unprecedented predicament. For example, international faces like Liu Yifei and Jet Li, their nationality has caused a lot of controversy. Liu Yifei became an American because she immigrated with her mother in her early years, and although she has developed abroad, her path in Hollywood is not so smooth, which also makes her cherish her Chinese roots even more. She once publicly said, "I am proud of being an Asian star", which is both proud and helpless.
Jet Li's example is more complicated. He once gave up his Chinese citizenship for the sake of career development and chose to join Singapore. Although his international achievements are unquestionable, his desire to return to his homeland as he grows older is difficult to realize, because China is not a country of immigrants and does not easily accept a change of nationality. This made Jet Li deeply regret it, and also gave us a certain amount of reflection: in today's globalization, the contradiction between nationality and personal identity is becoming more and more obvious.
Looking at the example of Zhang Tielin and Gong Li, who chose to change their nationality in order to better disseminate Chinese culture or because of personal emotional factors, these choices also brought a lot of controversy. After Zhang Tielin joined the British nationality, he publicly stated that it was to better promote Chinese culture, but he was criticized by netizens. Although Gong Li has become a Singaporean citizen, she insists that she will always be Chinese, and this complex emotion and sense of identity makes her image more three-dimensional, but also more elusive.
Although the "nationality restriction order" has caused trouble to some people, from a macro perspective, it is a kind of protection for domestic cultural security. We have also witnessed the complex relationships between individuals and countries, between careers, emotions and nationalities in the tide of globalization. All this is worth pondering. What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments section!