History Portrayal of Foreigners in Two Chinese Films Question
The Portrayal of Foreigners in Two Chinese Films
Watch The Opium War (1997) and The Naval Battle of 1894 (1962);
read the relevant discussions about the two historical events on which the two films are based in Spence’s chapters and Xiao’s essay; (Spence book download: https://compress-pdf.eamy.info/)
write an essay to compare these two films’ portrayals of foreigners. The key question your essay should address is “what do you see as the similarities and differences between the way foreigners are portrayed in these two films?”