China’s curious love for Zootopia extends to its sequel

Adrian Lee is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. Box-office returns aren’t just the clinical domain of film-industry insiders, Reddit obsessives and the growing number of fantasy movie leagues. Follow the money, and it will usually tell you something interesting about the audiences themselves. So what does it say about China – a nearly racially monolithic country under firm one-party rule – that one of its highest-grossing movies is now Zootopia 2, an American-made parable about diversity that follows rabbit cop Judy Hopps and sly fox Nick Wilde as they solve crime in a pluralistic society led by…