WORLD IN BRIEF : CHINA : Actor Loses Post in Culture Ministry
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Chinese actor most familiar to Western audiences has been stripped of his post in the Ministry of Culture as part of Beijing’s attack on artistic freedom and anti-socialist cultural influence. Ying Ruocheng was dismissed as a vice minister of culture in one of a dozen changes in cultural and media posts. The English-speaking Ying, 60, played a prison warden in the movie “The Last Emperor” and the Mongol ruler, Kublai Khan, in the 1981 television series “Marco Polo.”
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