Success of 'Kung Fu Panda' touches a cultural nerve in China


	Success of 'Kung Fu Panda' touches a cultural nerve in China

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7-16-2008 9:17 PM

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Success of 'Kung Fu Panda' touches a cultural nerve in China</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iht.com/articles/2008/07/16/asia/letter.php"><P>A few weeks ago, when the movie opened in China, there was already a call for a boycott - on the grounds that foreigners had lifted one of China's most precious symbols, the panda, and were using it for their own profit.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iht.com/articles/2008/07/16/asia/letter.php"><P>"As a movie director, I cannot help wondering when China will be able to produce a movie of this caliber," Lu said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://iht.com/articles/2008/07/16/asia/letter.php"><P>Certainly the movie's themes do evoke some important Chinese elements, and not all of them as obvious as the panda. Overriding the whole story of Po and his triumph over his own bungling nature is a recognizably Buddhist sensibility, embodied by the Shaolin Monastery-like setting where spiritual enlightenment is fused with the mental discipline and mastery over the self that are prerequisites to enlightenment.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1A677C81-B9DD-4C83-90ED-D384D82E3488/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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