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Zhang Ziyi is once again the focus of an Internet controversy.

She is said to "have offended Chinese sensibilities" by appearing in a kneeling position in her latest movie The Horsemen. I haven't seen the movie yet, but from publicity materials, Zhang seems to play the role of a killer named Kristen. It's not clear whether Kristen is even Chinese or ethnic Chinese. But I guess such details would not bother those intent on painting the Chinese actress as "a traitor to her own country".

In 2005, Zhang starred in another Hollywood production, Memoirs of a Geisha, in which she played a geisha who sleeps with a client, played by a Japanese actor. A lot of egos were bruised in China, which gathered enough momentum to have the movie banned in her motherland.

According to one Internet posting, Zhang's "sins" are numerous. In a Sino-South Korean co-production called Sophie's Revenge, which is now in post-production, Zhang complimented her co-star but he supposedly bad-mouthed China. By extension, Zhang has been found guilty as well.

In a series of publicity shots a few years ago, Zhang wore a gown that revealed the upper part of her back. The photos were plastered all over Tokyo, which some netizens reckoned "debased the Chinese race".

She also appeared in a shampoo commercial in Japan but turned down a similar product endorsement deal in China because "the money is too little". Very "unpatriotic", claimed some.