Carina Lau has grow to be the newest Hong Kong celeb to be criticised by Chinese netizens for her tribute to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
The monarch died on the age of 96 on Sept 8 after 70 years on the throne.
Lau, 56, shared a photograph of the Queen on Instagram on Sept 9, writing in Chinese: “A tribute to Queen Elizabeth. This outstanding woman presided over a long and stable reign in a rapidly changing society. Her passing is an irreplaceable loss in our era.”
Lau, who performed former Chinese empress Wu Zetian within the Detective Dee film trilogy (2010 to 2018), didn’t reproduce the put up on Chinese social media platform Weibo.
However, Chinese netizens flocked to her Weibo put up dated Sept 15 to vent, with most of them expressing their displeasure at her tribute to the Queen.
Some challenged her to share the Instagram put up on Weibo and instructed her to not return to China, whereas others introduced up the First Opium War (1839 to 1842) which ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain.
Lau has not responded to the backlash to this point.
Last Thursday (Sept 15), veteran Hong Kong opera star and actor Law Kar Ying apologised and declared his patriotism in a video on Weibo after he was criticised netizens in China for praising the Queen in a put up on Instagram, which he has since deleted. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
