#Newspaper
Much Boycotted 'Mulan' Release Pushed Back Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
//Disney is pushing the release of its upcoming live-action tentpole Mulan amid growing concerns around the coronavirus, the studio said Thursday. The movie was set to hit theaters in North America on March 27.
//Disney is looking into new release dates for all of the titles later this year.
//While no theaters are yet closed in the U.S. because of the coronavirus, there is growing concern that some cinemas could go dark in areas where cases of COVID-19 are proliferating, or where business has slowed. That is in addition to the ongoing blackout on moviegoing in China. (Mulan did not yet have a Chinese release date.)
Full Article: Hollywood Reporter, (12-Mar)
https://bit.ly/2Uedjin
Further reading:
Why should we #BoycottMulan?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/4069
#Mulan #Coronavirus #Pandemic
Much Boycotted 'Mulan' Release Pushed Back Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
//Disney is pushing the release of its upcoming live-action tentpole Mulan amid growing concerns around the coronavirus, the studio said Thursday. The movie was set to hit theaters in North America on March 27.
//Disney is looking into new release dates for all of the titles later this year.
//While no theaters are yet closed in the U.S. because of the coronavirus, there is growing concern that some cinemas could go dark in areas where cases of COVID-19 are proliferating, or where business has slowed. That is in addition to the ongoing blackout on moviegoing in China. (Mulan did not yet have a Chinese release date.)
Full Article: Hollywood Reporter, (12-Mar)
https://bit.ly/2Uedjin
Further reading:
Why should we #BoycottMulan?
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/4069
#Mulan #Coronavirus #Pandemic
The Hollywood Reporter
‘Mulan’ Release Pushed Back Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Disney is pushing the release of its upcoming live-action tentpole ‘Mulan’ amid growing concerns around the coronavirus.
#OpinionArticle #ChipTsao
How to play this poker game
(15 Mar) The Wuhan pneumonia is globalized. Even the epidemic may subside when warm weather returns, the world will still be disconnected with China and enter an era of "Post Made in China".
It is not the epidemic that is scary, but the habit of how the Chinese government and the Chinese conceal and lie about everything. The Chinese government and its people think they are always right - all faults are on the U.S. side which is the leader of the West. The world has experienced this, and the global pandemic has been confirmed and declared. Where will all the people, except the Chinese, go? This is a very serious problem.
Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/How-to-play-this-poker-game-03-22
Image: 地瓜熊老六
Source: Apple Daily
https://bit.ly/2U8Ln0K
#Coronavirus #Mulan #ChinaThreat #VirusOrigin
How to play this poker game
(15 Mar) The Wuhan pneumonia is globalized. Even the epidemic may subside when warm weather returns, the world will still be disconnected with China and enter an era of "Post Made in China".
It is not the epidemic that is scary, but the habit of how the Chinese government and the Chinese conceal and lie about everything. The Chinese government and its people think they are always right - all faults are on the U.S. side which is the leader of the West. The world has experienced this, and the global pandemic has been confirmed and declared. Where will all the people, except the Chinese, go? This is a very serious problem.
Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/How-to-play-this-poker-game-03-22
Image: 地瓜熊老六
Source: Apple Daily
https://bit.ly/2U8Ln0K
#Coronavirus #Mulan #ChinaThreat #VirusOrigin
#FreeAgnes
After Agnes Chow Is Arrested in Hong Kong, a ‘#Mulan’ Meme Is Born
//Soon after one of Hong Kong’s best-known democracy activists was arrested under the national security law imposed on the city by the Chinese government, supporters turned her into a “Mulan” meme.
...Disney’s “Mulan,” for its part, has been at the center of an ideological divide in Hong Kong since last year.
Yifei Liu, the Chinese actress who plays Mulan in the movie, drew a backlash when she sided with the Hong Kong police against the protesters on the microblogging platform Weibo, where she had nearly 66 million followers at the time. The police have been accused of excessive force in dealing with the protests.
When Liu shared the quote “I support the Hong Kong police, you all can beat me up now,” adding a heart and a bicep emoji, the blowback was swift, with supporters of the protests calling for a boycott of “Mulan.”
Source: New York Times #Aug13
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Agnes Chow: HK activist hailed as the 'real Mulan'
After Agnes Chow Is Arrested in Hong Kong, a ‘#Mulan’ Meme Is Born
//Soon after one of Hong Kong’s best-known democracy activists was arrested under the national security law imposed on the city by the Chinese government, supporters turned her into a “Mulan” meme.
...Disney’s “Mulan,” for its part, has been at the center of an ideological divide in Hong Kong since last year.
Yifei Liu, the Chinese actress who plays Mulan in the movie, drew a backlash when she sided with the Hong Kong police against the protesters on the microblogging platform Weibo, where she had nearly 66 million followers at the time. The police have been accused of excessive force in dealing with the protests.
When Liu shared the quote “I support the Hong Kong police, you all can beat me up now,” adding a heart and a bicep emoji, the blowback was swift, with supporters of the protests calling for a boycott of “Mulan.”
Source: New York Times #Aug13
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Agnes Chow: HK activist hailed as the 'real Mulan'
Stand With Human Rights and Social Responsibility: Political Cartoon Artist #Badiucao Calls For #BoycottMulan
"If u support universal human rights,
If u hate police brutality,
If u believe artists, actors/actresses and companies shall carry social responsibilities,
If u respect Asians and refuse seeing us as money mining market and tokens.
Boycott #Mulan "
Source: Badiucao #Sept5
https://mobile.twitter.com/badiucao/status/1302190430520451072
#BanMulan #MilkTeaAlliance
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Pro-Democracy Activists Call On All Freedom-Loving People to Boycott Disney's Mulan Played by Pro-Police Violence Chinese Actress
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24897
#FreeAgnes : Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Activist Agnes Chow is Hailed as #RealMulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24212
Mulan: Calls to boycott film revived as it starts streaming on Disney+
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/mulan-boycott-why-disney-liu-yifei-hong-kong-police-support-a9705626.html
"If u support universal human rights,
If u hate police brutality,
If u believe artists, actors/actresses and companies shall carry social responsibilities,
If u respect Asians and refuse seeing us as money mining market and tokens.
Boycott #Mulan "
Source: Badiucao #Sept5
https://mobile.twitter.com/badiucao/status/1302190430520451072
#BanMulan #MilkTeaAlliance
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Pro-Democracy Activists Call On All Freedom-Loving People to Boycott Disney's Mulan Played by Pro-Police Violence Chinese Actress
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24897
#FreeAgnes : Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Activist Agnes Chow is Hailed as #RealMulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24212
Mulan: Calls to boycott film revived as it starts streaming on Disney+
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/mulan-boycott-why-disney-liu-yifei-hong-kong-police-support-a9705626.html
#MilkTeaAlliance Calls For Boycotting #Mulan
Conjoining the calls from pro-democracy voices from Hong Kong and Taiwan, Thai student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal tweeted on September 4, 2020:
“I invite everyone to #boycottMulan #banMulan to make Disney and the Chinese government know that state violence against the people is unacceptable.”
Source: Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal's Twitter #Sept4
https://twitter.com/NetiwitC/status/1301915031320182784?s=20
#Netiwit #ThaiProtests #HongKongProtests
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Stand With Human Rights and Social Responsibility: Political Cartoon Artist #Badiucao Calls For #BoycottMulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24899
Pro-Democracy Activists Call On All Freedom-Loving People to Boycott Disney's Mulan Played by Pro-Police Violence Chinese Actress
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24897
#FreeAgnes : Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Activist Agnes Chow is Hailed as #RealMulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24212
Conjoining the calls from pro-democracy voices from Hong Kong and Taiwan, Thai student activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal tweeted on September 4, 2020:
“I invite everyone to #boycottMulan #banMulan to make Disney and the Chinese government know that state violence against the people is unacceptable.”
Source: Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal's Twitter #Sept4
https://twitter.com/NetiwitC/status/1301915031320182784?s=20
#Netiwit #ThaiProtests #HongKongProtests
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Stand With Human Rights and Social Responsibility: Political Cartoon Artist #Badiucao Calls For #BoycottMulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24899
Pro-Democracy Activists Call On All Freedom-Loving People to Boycott Disney's Mulan Played by Pro-Police Violence Chinese Actress
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24897
#FreeAgnes : Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Activist Agnes Chow is Hailed as #RealMulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24212
#BoycottMulan #BanMulan
Artist Badiucao: Disney is a Supporter of CCP's "#Genocide on Uyghurs"
Source: #Badiucao
www.twitter.com/badiucao/status/1302190430520451072
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Disney Thanks Chinese Communist Party's Secret Agency Despite Their Brutal Crackdown on #Uyghurs
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25138
Founder of Taiwanese Forum PTT Boycotts Disney's Mulan, Hailing Hong Kong Women as "True Mulans"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25157
#MilkTeaAlliance Calls For Boycotting #Mulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24900
Stand With Human Rights and Social Responsibility: Political Cartoon Artist Badiucao Calls For BoycottMulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24899
Pro-Democracy Activists Call On All Freedom-Loving People to Boycott Disney's Mulan Played by Pro-Police Violence Chinese Actress
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24897
#FreeAgnes : Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Activist Agnes Chow is Hailed as #RealMulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24212
Artist Badiucao: Disney is a Supporter of CCP's "#Genocide on Uyghurs"
Source: #Badiucao
www.twitter.com/badiucao/status/1302190430520451072
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Disney Thanks Chinese Communist Party's Secret Agency Despite Their Brutal Crackdown on #Uyghurs
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25138
Founder of Taiwanese Forum PTT Boycotts Disney's Mulan, Hailing Hong Kong Women as "True Mulans"
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/25157
#MilkTeaAlliance Calls For Boycotting #Mulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24900
Stand With Human Rights and Social Responsibility: Political Cartoon Artist Badiucao Calls For BoycottMulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24899
Pro-Democracy Activists Call On All Freedom-Loving People to Boycott Disney's Mulan Played by Pro-Police Violence Chinese Actress
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24897
#FreeAgnes : Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Activist Agnes Chow is Hailed as #RealMulan
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/24212
#OpinionArticle
Beyond Authenticity: the Spectre of Han Hegemony
//It is hard not to see the Emperor’s protectiveness of the Silk Road in #Mulan as an echo of China’s Belt and Road scheme, often termed a New Silk Road to build their economic prosperity. The violence of Islamic-coded barbarians echoes modern Chinese propaganda about Islamic terrorism in #Xinjiang, which is being used to justify the existence of concentration camps.
//Modern China is built on the idea that the Han people should be and are the inheritors of the Qing empire. These colonial possessions, like Tibet, East Turkestan (aka Xinjiang) and Southern Mongolia, are argued to share with the Han people a “common historical destiny” (Chiang Kai-shek, 1947). Other empires may have attempted (however ineptly and inadequately) some form of de-colonisation in the 20th Century, but China’s successive regimes very much did not.
//The cultural genocide happening in Xinjiang today is part of a larger project by the Chinese government to force assimilation and cultural “harmony” across their empire. It can be seen the policies mandating the use Mandarin in schools, a policy that has sparked protests in Southern Mongolia.
Full article: Medium, (12-Sep)
https://link.medium.com/Fwu4wy1DH9
#Han #Mulan #BoycottMulan #Xinjiang
Beyond Authenticity: the Spectre of Han Hegemony
//It is hard not to see the Emperor’s protectiveness of the Silk Road in #Mulan as an echo of China’s Belt and Road scheme, often termed a New Silk Road to build their economic prosperity. The violence of Islamic-coded barbarians echoes modern Chinese propaganda about Islamic terrorism in #Xinjiang, which is being used to justify the existence of concentration camps.
//Modern China is built on the idea that the Han people should be and are the inheritors of the Qing empire. These colonial possessions, like Tibet, East Turkestan (aka Xinjiang) and Southern Mongolia, are argued to share with the Han people a “common historical destiny” (Chiang Kai-shek, 1947). Other empires may have attempted (however ineptly and inadequately) some form of de-colonisation in the 20th Century, but China’s successive regimes very much did not.
//The cultural genocide happening in Xinjiang today is part of a larger project by the Chinese government to force assimilation and cultural “harmony” across their empire. It can be seen the policies mandating the use Mandarin in schools, a policy that has sparked protests in Southern Mongolia.
Full article: Medium, (12-Sep)
https://link.medium.com/Fwu4wy1DH9
#Han #Mulan #BoycottMulan #Xinjiang
Foreign Policy
On China’s New Silk Road, Democracy Pays A Toll
China's vast foreign investment program comes at a sharp cost to human rights and good governance
#OpinionArticle #ChipTsao
Common knowledge of architecture in Mulan
Editor's Note:
In the west, we have Foucault's panopticon as a metaphor for a higher authority surveilling the common folk. In this article, the author explores how the Chinese government turns this concept on its head with the tulou, where the common folk surveil each other.
(11 Sep) After mainland Chinese netizens watched pirated copies of Disney's Orientalist and novelty-seeking rendition of Mulan, they let loose their unabated criticism: the costumes were not historically accurate, Fujian's tulous showed up in the North China region, the high-end escort-worthy looks of top actress Liu Yifei failed to make up for her rigid expression throughout the movie - it was like her face was paralysed. The mainland market appreciated none of this.
//[Then,] Disney came along to trample on the culture of Chinese architecture. South China's Fujian tulous were haphazardly transported to an arid region.
//Just as the poetic saga of Hua Mulan represents the advanced Han civilization annihilating the savage race of Mongolia's barbarians, the screening of Mulan coincided with the Chinese government destroying all the [native] language textbooks in Inner Mongolia. [The act] inherited the spirit of Mulan and brought more vibrance to the film. If I were the Executive Chairman of Disney, I would have taken the hint. After its screening, I would have bought land from the filming location in Xinjiang and open up a new Disney park. It would welcome the Central Asian and European tourism markets under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Common-knowledge-of-architecture-in-Mulan-09-22
Source: Apple Daily News
https://bit.ly/3hRkt6c
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#Mulan #Disney #ChineseArchitecture
#Orientalist #Fujian
Common knowledge of architecture in Mulan
Editor's Note:
In the west, we have Foucault's panopticon as a metaphor for a higher authority surveilling the common folk. In this article, the author explores how the Chinese government turns this concept on its head with the tulou, where the common folk surveil each other.
(11 Sep) After mainland Chinese netizens watched pirated copies of Disney's Orientalist and novelty-seeking rendition of Mulan, they let loose their unabated criticism: the costumes were not historically accurate, Fujian's tulous showed up in the North China region, the high-end escort-worthy looks of top actress Liu Yifei failed to make up for her rigid expression throughout the movie - it was like her face was paralysed. The mainland market appreciated none of this.
//[Then,] Disney came along to trample on the culture of Chinese architecture. South China's Fujian tulous were haphazardly transported to an arid region.
//Just as the poetic saga of Hua Mulan represents the advanced Han civilization annihilating the savage race of Mongolia's barbarians, the screening of Mulan coincided with the Chinese government destroying all the [native] language textbooks in Inner Mongolia. [The act] inherited the spirit of Mulan and brought more vibrance to the film. If I were the Executive Chairman of Disney, I would have taken the hint. After its screening, I would have bought land from the filming location in Xinjiang and open up a new Disney park. It would welcome the Central Asian and European tourism markets under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Common-knowledge-of-architecture-in-Mulan-09-22
Source: Apple Daily News
https://bit.ly/3hRkt6c
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#Mulan #Disney #ChineseArchitecture
#Orientalist #Fujian
Telegraph
Common knowledge of architecture in Mulan
#OpinionArticle #ChipTsao Editor's Note: In the west, we have Foucault's panopticon as a metaphor for a higher authority surveilling the common folk. In this article, the author explores how the Chinese government turns this concept on its head with the tulou…