I just wanted to rant about how terrible I found the 2020 live action Mulan movie, and Twitter wasn’t enough to express all my feelings, so I recorded a 35 minute video on a shoddy camera and made a YouTube account to throw it up there. I didn’t have serious thoughts about becoming a YouTuber until I accidentally blew up with my first video though. I think there’s much misunderstanding about Chinese culture from Western points of view, so I’ve made it my life’s mission to demystify it by spreading the stories I love. While there’s “typical Chinese culture” that seems to make everything about Confucianism and obedience and sticking within your designated social roles, there has also always been a counterculture that rebelled against that, and that spirit is just as Chinese. Finding the stories of defiance and resilience in the historical records inspired me like nothing else. I got really into Chinese history a few years ago when I was in a pretty dark place in my life.
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