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New Film Appears to Criticize Chinese Authoritarianism

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New Film Appears to Criticize Chinese Authoritarianism
Commuters watch movies on their mobile phones and tablets in a metro car in Beijing on Nov. 17, 2014. Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images
Christopher Balding
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Art acts as a mirror reflecting back society to itself for introspection. Too often, we make the mistake of viewing censored societies as devoid of artistic merit or introspection about their own situation.

Christopher Balding
Christopher Balding
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Christopher Balding was a professor at the Fulbright University Vietnam and the HSBC Business School of Peking University Graduate School. He specializes in the Chinese economy, financial markets, and technology. A senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, he lived in China and Vietnam for more than a decade before relocating to the United States.