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Drag Queens, Officially Approved By The Chinese Communist Party (But Only One Kind)

ISSUES Posted: July 26, 2019 8:03 am

“Wang Zhi … says he can make a tidy 2m yuan ($290,000) a year from his cross-dressing routines. … He regularly appears on nationally televised variety shows. Officials often invite him to entertain people in poor areas.” And why does Xi Jinping’s increasingly conservative government tolerate this? Wang Zhi and his fellows do drag Beijing opera-style. – The Economist

ISSUES Published: 07.20.19

Read the story in The Economist Published: 07.20.19

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