#Zhong Chuxi

[wolha]

You can’t hold your liquor, yet you love drinking so much. Alcohol is good. You won’t understand if you don’t drink. Alcohol makes happiness even better. With different feelings, you can drink and experience different types of happiness.

RISING WITH THE WIND 我要逆风去 2023, dir. Zhao Yi Long

[xiaolanhua]

ZHONG CHUXI 2024 Television Series of China Quality Ceremony

[yingtan]

Zhong Chuxi for Harper’s Bazaar China, August 2023

[memorycardviii]

ZHONG CHUXI ( cr. MEMORY CARD VIII ) + 2 variations.

[themakeupbrush]

Zhong Chuxi (Elaine Zhong) at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival

[xinyuehui]

Wu Zetian · Judge Dee's Mystery (2024)

[cnladies]

ZHONG CHUXI 钟楚曦 in Georges Hobeika 2023 S/S Haute Couture | Tiffany & Co Brand Event

Zhong Chuxi: more photos here brand event: more photos here

[mostlyfate]

THE FURTHEST DISTANCE 最遥远的距离 · 2023, Yu Chung Chung

[peterpumpkinhead]

about yibo's recent controversy

it's bad!!!!!

I'm a black fan of his and needless to say, I'm devastated lol

Yes, I fully understood the context of the scene. Yes, I also understand there were many black people on set (and I will not hold them responsible or use them as tokens to justify what cannot be justified). Yes, I get that actors have contractual obligations and have limited say in what makes it in the film, in spite of what people might think.

That being said, there's a reason why blackface is 99% of time and abhorrent practice in the arts. I leave 1% out because, in certain instances, like in the show Mad Men, it appears for the sake of historical accuracy and it is MEANT to cause revolt and disgust in the audience.

The fact is - as much as the plot of the film is based in real life, blackface, as an aesthetic instrument, reinforces many negative stereotypes, it perpetuates itself in the collective imagination and is more so a tool of dehumanization and naturalization of the relegation of black bodies to the category of costumes, props, tools.

I don't even need to get into the paternalistic approach of foreign law enforcement, coming from powerful countries of the global north, working in developing countries and portraying themselves solely as heroes - which is the storyline of a film that has no main black characters and relegates the black cast to either victims, criminals or extras in the background.

The entire cast, crew and production company should be held responsible for this enormous error, so I won't single one person out.

Being critical and demanding a response is not the same as being a hater. I'm nobody's hater, or anti and I believe in measured, strategic responses to a situation like this. But being angry is a very, very valid feeling right now.

I myself work on television and ~believe it or not, am a socialist. You don't need to explain away the inner workings of the entertainment industry or the complexities of cultural impact and ongoing symbols of oppression. I'm *quite* aware.

But, as a good old socialist, I must ask the question: what do we do? My thought process is: I fear that the Chinese audiences will not give two damns about this, which does not mean we shouldn't mobilize ourselves to demand change, an apology and consequences.

Being someone's fan is not the same as joining a cult and my admiration for the actor involved is not larger than my responsibility to social justice and to my people.

So I suggest we contact and comment on posts made by international brands endorsed by the talents in this film - like Dior, Chanel, Lacoste, Pantene, etc. We need to ask them if they're ready the back actors who have agreed to this outdated, highly insulting practice.

This film will not be getting my support and I will not defend actions that need no defense. I'm nobody's attorney, I'm a working class artist and I know better than to infantilize a grown man, as much as I've a history of admiring him.

[devdas5z]

Zhong Chuxi

[hlcyxnfilms]

JUDGE DEE'S MYSTERY ( 2024 ) ─ FIRE'S DEATH DANCE

// @asiandramanet creator bingo ( march ) ─ ‍typography

[wolha]

RISING WITH THE WIND 我要逆风去 2023, dir. Zhao Yi Long

[xiaolanhua]

ZHONG CHUXI for the Giambattista Valli show at Paris Fashion Week

[yingtan]

Zhong Chuxi for Marie Claire Now China, Winter 2023

[zhongwans]

Gong Jun and Zhong Chuxi at the Cannes red carpet 🌹

[themakeupbrush]

Zhong Chuxi (Elaine Zhong) at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival