The Barbie movie has dominated the box office in China, in a year when many other United States movies have not performed well in the world’s second-largest film market. Barbie outperformed movies like Mission Impossible and the films from the Marvel franchise. It has been eagerly received for its message, raising a question of whether it flew under the radar of the country’s media censors.
So, what’s behind Barbie’s success in China?
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- Yifan Yu (@YifanYuNews), tech reporter for Nikkei Asia
- Marrian Zhou (@ZhouMarrian), US-China relations reporter for Nikkei Asia
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