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Grip Tightens on China’s Entertainment Industries

At Vanity Fair, May Jeong profiles Chinese movie megastar Fan Bingbing, describing her four-month disappearance last year amid a series of other prominent cases, and its context in an ongoing crackdown on tax evasion, “distorting [of] social values,” and “growing tendency towards money worship” in China’s film industry. In March 2018, President Xi established the National Supervision Commission, granting it sweeping powers to investigate corruption and tax