Did Mulan recieve a well-deserved award?

Do you know that the Chinese government is famous for punishing media organizations that don`t toe the government line and rewarding those that do?

In December 1996 after learning of Disney`s plans to release Kundun, a Martin Scorsese film about Tibet`s Dalai Lama, Kong Min, an official at the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, stated: "We are resolutely opposed to the making of this movie. It is intended to glorify the Dalai Lama, so it is an inteference in China`s internal affairs." When the studio went ahead with the film anyway, Beijing instituted a ban on the release of all Disney films in China, a ban that stayed in place for two years.

Disney finally managed to get the Cinese government to lift the ban on its films with the release of Mulan, a feel-good animated tale based on a 1,300-year-old legend from the Sui Dynasty. The South China Morning Post described the depiction of Chinese heroism and patriotism as an "olive branch" and "the most China-friendly movie Hollywood has made in years."

It also served its purpose: Mulan flopped at the box office but it opened the door to discussions between Disney and Beijing for a planned $2 billion Disney theme park in Hong Kong.