The idea of Agnes Chow as the true Mulan is showing up in all sorts of ways (in varied languages and Tweets from varied places) on the Internet (see this image ); the latest in a string of fascinating Hong Kong meets Hollywood protest angles https://twitter.com/normanspirit54/status/1293151494544461825

There were all sorts of Bruce Lee references/images during the 2019 protests via the "Be Water" strategy of protesters (and as @sebastianveghk has noted, there were some "Be Water" references in 2014 as well), see this by @alanwongw & @violazhouyi https://www.inkstonenews.com/politics/hong-kong-protesters-get-inspirations-bruce-lee-kung-fu-strategy/article/3021622

And there's the importance of the Hunger Games (important in Thailand in 2014 https://qz.com/215631/thai-coup-protesters-have-adopted-the-hunger-games-three-fingered-salute/ as well as in Hong Kong that year & in 2019 & now important in Thailand again); @HanaMeihanDavis & I wrote about the Hong Kong side of the story here https://themillions.com/2020/01/hong-kong-and-the-hunger-games.html

Three photos I took on December 8, 2019, during my last trip to Hong Kong, at a massive march; only one has a Hollywood connection that goes w/ this thread, but adding in the other two to underscore the variation of themes, moods, & styles of the visuals on the streets last year

Note on Agnes Chow; I first wrote about her in 2016 for @LAReviewofBooks after being impressed by a video she made about the disappearing booksellers https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/then-they-came-for-the-bookseller/ & led w/comments on her in a 2017 @TheTLS review of @benjaminbland's Generation HK https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/politics-214/

H/t for the first image that started this thread to @memew_hongkong (sorry for failing to tag initially!)

Hong Kong protests/Hollywood cont.; when @XLHawkins & I asked activists & others in 2019 to name a novel or movie relevant to Hong Kong's situation, one brought up "Titanic," another the "Hunger Games"/screen shots of parts of pages 20 & 21 of Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink here

A crucial point: the Hong Kong protests + popular culture story isn’t just one that involves Hollywood, also anime, manga, Korean & Taiwanese texts and genres, some good pieces on this have run in @qz & @stegersaurus talked about it on an @asiaarttours podcast I think