Hollywoodreporter.com, 29 Aug 2009
BEIJING -- A patriotic Chinese film aimed at boosting national pride ahead of a key political anniversary has tempers rising instead, because many of the movie's stars are foreign citizens.
An online list shows that one quarter of the 80 celebrities affiliated with "The Great Cause of China's Foundation," being made to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Communist Party rule, are legally foreigners.
Some of the stars, like Jackie Chan and Andy Lau, have been Hong Kong citizens all their lives, but action star Jet Li, now a Singaporean, and director Chen Kaige, who holds U.S. citizenship, were born in the People's Republic of China.
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