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Gong Li Branded a Traitor
Gong Li, the 43-year-old star of such Hollywood films as Memoirs of a Geisha, Farewell My Concubine and Miami Vice became a citizen of Singapore in a ceremony on 7th November with 149 other people. She was accompanied by her husband of 12 years, Ooi Hoe Seong, a Singaporean tobacco company executive.
Chinese citizens are forbidden from holding dual citizenship meaning the actress had to relinquish her Chinese nationality, an act that outraged many people who voiced their anger on various online forums.
A poster on Sohu.com raged, ‘All traitors will be nailed to history’s mast of shame. We should resolutely reject any further contact with such people.’ While another opined that ‘Traitors like this don’t even love their own country. These people were only fake countrymen of ours. Let them slink off to other countries and die!’
Other posters were more forgiving, with one commenting, ‘Why doesn’t anyone ask why people want to emigrate? We see one Chinese person after another taking U.S. citizenship. Why don’t we see Americans taking Chinese citizenship?’
Other Chinese stars to have changed their nationality included Jet Li (American),and Chen Kaige (American). Others, such as Zhang Ziyi, had become Hong Kong nationals to make travelling to and from the country easier. [ADD]
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