How To Win the Propaganda War
Examining the many layers of propaganda in the 2020 blockbuster Chinese World War II movie "The Eight Hundred" about a heroic last stand during The Battle of Shanghai
Comrades: War is hell, but heroism and propaganda win them.
Every culture valorizes glorious last stands. Greece has the 300 Spartans of Thermopylae. America has Remember the Alamo. England has Dunkirk. Russia has Stalingrad. Many movies have paid tribute to these iconic moments in war history. Now China has The Eight Hundred of the 88th Division. Again…