The Great Success of Coco in China: Family Conquers All

Coco has received unexceptional success in China, grossing over 154 million in the first month after release. While it presents unique, engaging Mexican aesthetics and novel music, its appeal may depend on the Chinese audience…

Spirited Away in America

Hayao Miyazaki’s renowned Spirited Away follows a pre-adolescent Japanese girl, Chihiro, as she navigates and escapes a fantastical spiritual realm. The film was released in 2001, during a time of cultural transformation in Japan. As a result of sudden economic prosperity in the…

A Success Failing Overseas: Toyota Yaris

“There was an economy of design to the Yaris that was in stark contrast to the fussiness…

Kobe Bryant in China: An Irreplicable Success

January 27th, 2020. Five days into the lockdown of Wuhan for what was then known…

Sushi Outside the Borders of Japan

Sushi is a dish originating from Eastern Asia between the 5th and the 3rd centuries BC. Today, it…

WP3RD: South Korea’s popularity and criticism towards ‘Money Heist’

Fifty Shades of Grey: A Gender Revolution of Chinese Women

Fifty Shades of Grey, a romantic movie that came up to the theatre around the world on February 13, 2015, a day before Valentine’s. This movie talks about a college girl, Anastasia Steele (Ana) is crushed by a young and…

What made Dangal a success in China?

In the summer of 2017, an Indian movie overwhelmed Chinese social media: Dangal. During that summer, I saw Aamir Khan, the famous Indian actor who plays the main character in Dangal, everywhere. On the home page of Baidu, a major search engine in China, you can…

South Park: American Political Satire and Why Does it Not Work in China

Small eyes, yellow skin, and speaking with a thick accent … These are not only Chinese people’s stereotypical features in…

WP3 Rough Draft - Turning Red: A Western Story Told In Chinese Way

As Chinese audiences become increasingly important and influential globally, Hollywood filmmakers tend to make movies and animations more suitable and appealing to them. As the first Pixar movie solely directed by a…

Interstellar’s ‘inter-success’

November 6th, 2014. South Koreans were thrilled that another film Interstellar created by director Christopher Nolan was released. Interstellar’s plots in short: Earth is devastated full of sand storms, droughts, crop failure, and many more. The only option left for humanity…

Behind the Unusual Popularity of Ready Player One in China

Chinese audiences are by no means strangers to the movies produced around the world that represent different cultural backgrounds. How Chinese audiences view foreign films does not deviate much from the western views either. It…

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Queer Eye (2018) is an American reality TV series on Netflix that originated from a 2003 show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. In each episode, “Fab Five”, a team of 5 gay professionals in the culture, design, grooming, fashion, and food field offers advice on improving lifestyles and helps clients achieve…

A South African Hit

On the cusp of the worldwide shutdown triggered the coronavirus pandemic, an Angolan dance troupe took the world by storm in February of 2020. Balancing plates, pots, and various utensils, Fenomenos de Semba grooved to a South African song, “Jerusalema”, sung by Nocembo and produced by Master…

Måneskin: From the Street of Rome to International Fame

It is indisputable that the United States has grown to be more and more supportive of queerness within the last century — both from a social and political standpoint. Prior to the twentieth century, the majority of Americans denounced…

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Hello Kitty: she’s on stationary, pajamas, backpacks, food — heck, she even has entire cafes dedicated to her. How does a simplistic…

Three Idiots

In the Indian film Three Idiots (2009), three engineering students and best friends Rancho, Farhan, and Raju struggle to beat the draconian education systems in one of the Indian premier universities. The film was included in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the highest-grossing Bollywood…

Canada Goose’s success in China reveals the working class spirit inside Chinese.

In a decade, Canada Goose is a clothing brand focusing on providing the warmest jackets and parkas that their customers could wear under the most extreme weather conditions has bloomed in…

The Privilege of Elite

The initial reason for the Netflix show Elite translating well to the U.S. is due to the mix between traditional telenovelas and features aspects from well-known and successful shows from the U.S. like Gossip Girl and How to Get Away with Murder. Despite this show being entertaining and…

Shakira: WP3

Her name, Shakira, means grateful. From her father’s first marriage, she has eight half-siblings. Her grandmother taught her the art of Arabian belly dancing. Even though Shakira was hugely popular worldwide, she had not yet achieved her goals of having a significant hit on the U.S. pop charts. So, when…

How Money Heist Shows Lack Of Trust In The Government

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WP3 Rough Draft — Is Chinese KFC the same?

From rural counties to urban cities embodied with modern style architecture, people can always find the existence of a restaurant across any street. It appears to be everywhere no matter where you go in China. If you ask a random foreigner who has just…

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Being one of the most well-known anime in recent years, the Japanese anime series Attack on Titan (2013–2022) attracts countless fans from Japan and across the border. The anime series has been continuously airing since its release in 2013, rising to its fame in the United States immediately after entering the…