Christian Bale is appearing in his first Chinese-language film, but it appears he doesn't have any fans among the country's communist leaders.
A government spokesman slammed the Oscar winner, saying he should feel embarrassed for visiting a human-rights activist under house arrest in eastern China while he was there doing publicity for his starring role in Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War.
So what got the Chinese in such a tizzy?
Bale, 37, made headlines five days ago when he was manhandled by government guards after turning up at the village of Dongshigu in eastern China without permission to meet with blind lawyer and activist Chen Ghuangcheng, who recently served a four-year prison sentence...
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