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Africa Again is the Backdrop for a Chinese Blockbuster Movie

The China in Africa Podcast

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What Does Wolf Warrior Mean in Cultural Studies?

Wolf Warrior brought in almost a billion dollars. Cobas: I think we're seeing so many of these movies that have a similar formula because it made so much money. Wolf Warrior is such a key text not to sound like an academic but the film dramatizes China's international presence, he says. "It strikes me there's a lot of like back and forth a lot of ambivalence about the different kind of aspects of being Chinese in the world"

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