Has China forgiven tax cheat Fan Bingbing?
- Actress back in the state media eye for a charity appearance – but she’s hard to spot in the picture
- Fan could make a comeback if she doesn’t put a step wrong, film studies professor says
After disappearing from official media for more than a year, Fan was finally given a mention, albeit not in a prominent position, for her appearance at the launch of a girls’ safety charity event hosted by Ifeng.com and Henan Traffic Radio on Friday.
She attended as a “public interest ambassador” and the news was carried by China Daily, the English-language newspaper run by the Communist Party’s Publicity Department, on its Chinese website on Monday.
Similar reports also appeared on Gmw.cn, the website of another party mouthpiece Guangming Daily, and was carried by People.com.cn, the website of the party’s most influential newspaper.
But one of two People.com.cn reports about the event did not include Fan on the list of attendees and the photo with it was too blurry to be able to identify the actress in the centre of the picture.
Li Daoxin, a Peking University film studies professor, said Fan could make a comeback as long as she did not break any law.
