From our correspondent in Asia
She began her speech in front of the whole Hollywood with an ode to her ancestral Chinese roots.
"At birth, all souls are naturally good,"
said Chloé Zhao, citing a classic poem from the Song era, learned during her childhood in Beijing, when she received the Oscar for best film on Sunday for her feature film. "Nomadland".
“When I was little in China, with my father we used to play reciting classic poems together and finish each other's sentences,”
said the 39-year-old filmmaker, with the long brown braids of a teenager, with emotion. in front of televisions all over the world.
Chloe Zhao has been persona non grata in her homeland since March when the official press unearthed old statements pointing to the control of minds exercised by the authoritarian regime
The adopted American, became the first woman from a minority to win the most coveted statuette in world cinema, shattering a new glass ceiling, bringing the Asian community into the limelight.
This triumph sounds like a shining tribute to the universalism of ancient Chinese culture,
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