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The nature of the regime ruling China is inherently monstrously deformed.
That conclusion was once again reaffirmed by the way that the Chinese government reacted when a film made by a woman who was born in Beijing took top honors at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 25.
Nomadland swept the top prizes for best picture, best director and best actress. The movie is a unique kind of road movie depicting in semi-documentary elegiac fashion the lives of Americans forced by economic circumstances to live a vagabond existence.
Chloé Zhao, the 39-year-old director of
Nomadland, thereby became the first woman of color and only the second woman ever to win the prestigious best director award.