Taiwanese artist Ms. Janine Chang Chun-ning (Zhang Junning) was accused by netizens in mainland China of being a “Taiwan independence artist” because she mentioned “our country” in her master’s thesis and “Taiwan cannot lose” in an interview in the past. “The case was reported to the Chinese government in the past. In response, Janine Chang’s studio issued a statement on September 6, local time to refute this, and stressed that “she has always firmly identified herself as a Chinese”.
Janine Chang’s studio issued a statement on the 6th, saying that the recent messages on the internet about Janine Chang’s “Taiwan independence” were “false information” and emphasized that “Ms. Janine Chang has no position of Taiwan independence, she has always firmly identified herself as a Chinese. She has always firmly identified herself as a Chinese, and will never allow anyone to use her origin to create conflicts!” Finally, she also called on netizens to be discerning: “Stop spreading untrue information!”
Shortly after the studio’s announcement, Janine Chang also said on her personal Weibo account that she had met respectable teachers and aspiring colleagues from both sides of the Taiwan Strait during her acting career and that she loved acting and considered it her career. She said that Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are part of the Chinese nation, and she stressed again that she is not a Taiwanese independent activist, “It is the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization that has taught us the way of being a Chinese child who stands upright on the ground.
In 2010, Ms. Chang graduated from the Graduate School of Business and Economics at National Central University in Taiwan. Her thesis was entitled “The Legal System of Management of Actors’ Agents in China”, in which the word “China” was accused by mainland netizens as a “Taiwan independence” statement, thus causing controversy.
In fact, Janine Chang has been working in the drama industry in China for many years, and the movies and dramas she has taken up have all received attention. Now that she is being questioned about her political stance, mainland netizens believe that her performance in “The Female Psychologist” is the one that will be most affected.
At the same time, a drama blogger on Weibo broke the news that Janine Chang had been removed from the new Chinese drama “The Psycho Woman”, and showed a screenshot of Baidu’s encyclopedia, confirming that Janine Chang had “disappeared” from the cast list, and that her role had also been deleted. However, as of now, Baidu search and the official microblog of the cast still show Janine Chang on the cast list. Source