Cinderella in Chinatown
Seeking Identity and Cultural Values in Year of the Fish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12750321 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiaoqing Qiu (0000-0003-4655-4730, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 370-370 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Marvels & Tales (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1521-4281 • E-ISSN: 1536-1802 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.13110/marvelstales.31.2.0370 |
| OpenAlex | W2774601264 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
American director David Kaplan’s 2007 Year of the Fish moves the Chinese variant of the ninth-century Cinderella story “Ye Xian” to New York City’s Chinatown in the twenty-first century. The film stands out among other Cinderella films in its accentuation of the complexity of cultural identification and offers American and other viewers a new perspective on Chinese culture through a Chinese Cinderella’s struggle in an alien and hostile environment. Fictionalizing the challenges of a specific community and representing different approaches to acculturation and cultural identification, Kaplan seems to criticize American capitalism and indicates the significance of ethnic traditions in surviving in a different culture
Acculturation · Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Chinatown · Chinese americans · Cultural identity · Ethnic group · Fish · Identification (biology · Identity (music · Literature · Narrative · Negotiation · Ninth · Novella · Perspective (graphical · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |