China Arts & Entertainment
Wang Baoqiang’s Weibo Marriage Crisis: (Ex) Wife Ma Rong Strikes Back
The Weibo statement of Chinese film star Wang Baoqiang (王宝强) about the illicit affair between his wife and his agent became big news earlier this week. Now that his wife strikes back through Weibo, Wang’s marriage has once again become the trending topic of the day. The Wang & Ma marriage crisis has become a Weibo drama with millions of netizens watching it unfold.
China’s biggest social media platform Sina Weibo has been playing an important role as the marriage crisis between Chinese film star Wang Baoqiang (王宝强) and his wife Ma Rong (马蓉) unfolded over the past few days. The crisis became the number one trending topic on Weibo on August 14 when Wang published a message on his official Weibo account that he is divorcing his wife Ma Rong and firing his agent Song Zhe (宋喆), as he could “not tolerate” their secret affair that was “harming family life”.
In his statement, Wang described himself as a loving and selfless father who would always put his children first. Wang and Ma have had two children since they got married in 2009.
Wang Baoqiang and his lawyer visited Beijing’s Chaoyang court yesterday to file the official divorce papers.
On August 16, the topic “Wang Baoqiang’s Divorce” (#王宝强离婚#) again became Weibo’s number one trending topic when news came out of Wang’s wife Ma Rong suing her estranged husband for defamation of character, demanding that Wang deletes his public statement and apologizes to her.
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Earlier, Ma Rong also responded to her husband’s allegations about her having a secret affair with his agent, blaming him for abandoning his friends and family, and later writing on her Weibo account: “Trying to hide would only make matters worse, the good and the evil each have their truth. Karma will have its turn in due time, if not now.”
Chinese social media seem to play a crucial role in the Wang & Ma marriage crisis, as Ma has now also publicly shared a copy of the legal papers of her lawsuit on her Weibo account.
Ma’s post, that was published in the morning of August 16, received over 1.5 million comments and was nearly shared a million times by the afternoon.
The great majority of Weibo netizens side with Wang Baoqiang, calling Ma Rong a ‘slut’, a ‘cheat’ or a ‘gold digger’. One popular Weibo comment by a young male netizen even says: “Let me tell you – even if Wang Baoqiang would keep a mistress, visit prostitutes or have another wife, we would still be on his side! No matter how wronged you feel, we won’t sympathize! You’re a piece of trash!”
This comment and the many of its sort show that there is a double standard in the existing public opinion, where the women often get blamed for extramarital affairs – no matter if they are the wife or the mistress. The men, on the other side, are often perceived as guiltless.
The recent stream of videos that show wives beating up their husband’s mistresses in broad daylight reveal how, even if it is the husband cheating, the females are held responsible. Netizens are generally quick to blame the wife who has been cheated, saying that she apparently “did not take good care of her husband” or otherwise he would not have had an affair. In the case of Wang Baoqiang and Ma Rong, however, there are virtually no netizens claiming that Ma had her alleged affair because Wang was “not taking good care of his wife”.
Wang Baoqiang has not responded (yet) to his wife’s lawsuit on his Weibo account today. By sharing his personal statement with his 2.4 million followers earlier this week, he has done enough to bring the crisis between him and the mother of his children out in the open for all of China to see. What else would a good, selfless, and protecting father do?
– By Manya Koetse
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Famous Chinese Nursery Song “One Penny” Inflates to “One Yuan”
One penny becomes one yuan in this children’s song. What’s next – changing it to QR codes?
Famous Chinese children’s song “One Penny” (一分钱) has changed its penny to a Chinese yuan ($0.15).
The lyrics to the song are now published online and in children’s books with the different lyrics, Chinese news platform City Bulletin (@都市快报) reports on Weibo.
The altered text in a children’s book.
The classic song, in translation, says:
“I found a penny on the street,
And handed it over to Uncle Policeman.
The Uncle Policeman took the penny,
And nodded his head at me.
I happily said: “Uncle, goodbye!”
The song, by Chinese composer Pan Zhensheng (潘振声), is known throughout China. It came out in 1963.
Apparently, in present-day China, nobody would go through so much hassle for a penny anymore, and so the text was altered (although it is very doubtful people would go through the trouble for one yuan either).
The penny coin (0.01) in renminbi was first issued in 1957, and is somewhat rare to come across these days. “It’s probably even worth more than one yuan now,” some netizens argue.
Chinese media report that composer Pan Zhensheng said the song is just an innocent children’s song, and that it should not be affected by price inflation. Sina News also quoted the composer in saying that changing the text is “not respectful.”
Although some Chinese netizens think the change in the song is just normal modern development, others do not agree at all. In Hangzhou, some say, all you can find on the streets nowadays is QR codes rather than coins. Surely the song should not incorporate those new developments either?
Some commenters on Weibo say the song would never be realistic in China’s current cashless society anyway: “Kids nowadays are not finding cash money at all anymore!”
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Controversy over Scene in Anti-Japanese War Drama Featuring Black U.S. Soldier and Chinese Nurse
Some scenes from this anti-Japanese war drama have angered Chinese netizens over ‘historical nihilism.’
“I love you, I love China,” a black man tells a Chinese woman in a clip of an anti-Japanese war drama that has gone viral on Chinese social media over the past few days (watch clip in embedded tweet below).
This scene from a Chinese Anti-Japanese war drama is stirring controversy on Chinese social media this week. "I love you, I love China," the foreigner says. "Love me, love China," the Chinese woman says, before sacrificing her life for him and getting killed by Japanese shooters.
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) September 5, 2019
The scene is set on a mountain, where the man and woman hold hands when she tells him to flee from the “Japanese devils.” She repeats: “Remember: love me, love China.”
The love scene takes a dramatic turn when the two get ambushed by the Japanese army. The Chinese woman immediately pushes the man off the mountain to bring him to safety. While she cries out “love me, love China” she is attacked by Japanese soldiers and dies.
The scene comes from a 2016 TV drama titled The Great Rescue of The Flying Tigers (飞虎队大营救). The drama tells the story of Japanese soldiers chasing surviving members of a Flying Tigers aircraft after they shot it down. Various soldiers and army staff on the Chinese side try to rescue the fighters from the hands of the Japanese.
The drama’s portrayal of a romance between the foreign soldier and a Chinese woman, on the side of the Communist Eighth Route Army, has stirred controversy on Weibo this week.
“The director is retarded, this is historical nihilism,” one Weibo blogger writes.
Hundreds of netizens also criticize the drama’s director and screenwriters: “This is not even funny, what kind of scriptwriter comes up with this trash? This should be thoroughly investigated.”
The Flying Tigers (飞虎队) were a group of US fighter pilots who went to China during the final three years of the Second Sino-Japanese War to fight the Japanese invaders and defend China.
Flying Tigers.
The people behind the Flying Tigers belonged to the organization of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), who came together in 1941 to strengthen the Chinese Air Force.
In the now controversial TV drama The Great Rescue of The Flying Tigers, the black soldier is ‘Carl’ (Cedric Beugre), a surviving member of the Flying Tigers aircraft shut down by Japanese forces. The Chinese woman is ‘Xinghua,’ a female nurse who sacrifices her own life to save Carl.
The dialogues between Carl and Xinghua are pretty simple and at times almost ridiculous. While Xinghua does not speak a word of English and appears clueless, Carl is depicted as a stubborn, crude and somewhat silly character, who also seems to understand very little of what is happening around him and does all he can to be with his Xinghua after a brief meeting in the Chinese base camp (also see this scene or here).
On Chinese social media, the drama is critiqued for being a so-called ‘divine Anti-Japanese drama’ (抗日神剧): Chinese war dramas that sensationalize the history of the war by making up unrealistic and overly dramatic or funny scenes and storylines.
In 2015, China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT) announced a limit on these kinds of TV dramas that sensationalize the history of war, and in doing so ‘misrepresent history’ and ‘disrespect’ the Chinese soldiers who fought to defend the nation (read more).
TV series focusing on war are part of China’s every day (prime time) TV schedules. These Chinese war dramas are called “Anti-Japanese War Dramas” (抗日电视剧), literally referring to the period of ‘resisting Japan’ during WWII (in China, the 1937-1945 war is called The War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression 中国抗日战争).
The 40-episode series The Great Rescue of the Flying Tigers was aired by Yunnan City Channel but is also available online. Since there are countless reruns of Anti-Japanese war dramas on Chinese tv, it is possible that some viewers only now viewed the 2016 drama for the first time.
Some netizens call this a “new kind of fantasy war drama”, summarizing: “A black man comes from far away to China to fight Japan, falls in love with a Chinese nurse who sacrifices her own life for him and yells ‘Love me love China’ before she dies.”
Many on social media call the script “idiotic,” others question if black soldiers ever joined the Flying Tigers in the first place.
There seems to be more to the controversy than sensationalizing history alone though – relationships between foreign men and Chinese women, especially black men and Chinese women, are often met with prejudice and racism on Chinese social media. Mixing such a narrative in a drama about the Second Sino-Japanese war makes it all the more controversial.
Some see the narrative of the love between a foreign soldier and a Chinese woman as a way of ‘beautifying’ the war and ‘adoring everything that’s foreign.’
“This is not respecting history at all!”, one among hundreds of commenters says.
In the TV drama, the sentence “Love me, Love China” does have some extra meaning in the end. Although Xinghua sacrifices her life for Carl in episode 19, he eventually chooses to fight side by side against the Japanese ‘devils’ with the Chinese army, keeping his promise to “love China” like he loved Xinghua.
By Manya Koetse , with contributions from Miranda Barnes
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