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In this blog post, I revisit the Academy Award-nominated 1990 Chinese film Ju Dou (Directors: Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang), reigniting the discussion around the much-explored national allegory that this film provides for the China of the past, present and future. Ju Dou is a film about gender roles and generational conflict, but these themesContinue reading “Revisiting Ju Dou (1990) and its allegory for China”