Fan Bingbing’s place atop China’s movie pantheon is hard to describe to Westerners; she’s sort of a combination Jennifer Lawrence-Nicole Kidman-Julia Roberts-Sandra Bullock. (In the West, she’s appeared in the X-Men and Iron Man franchises.) Very suddenly last year, she vanished from public view, she was loudly denounced in a few official media outlets, and her ongoing projects were put on hold. Journalist May Jeong looks into the reason for her precipitous fall and the warning it sent to the entire Chinese film industry. – Vanity Fair