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Four texts on one title card in the Chinese Film Classics project version of Cave of the Silken Web (1927). Source: National Library of Norway/author's collection.

Four texts on one title card in the Chinese Film Classics project version of Cave of the Silken Web (1927). Source: National Library of Norway/author's collection.

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Figure 1: Mulan singing in Hua Mu Lan (1939). Source: Author's collection.
Figure 2: Shop signs in Laborer's Love (1922). Source: Author's collection.
Figure 4: Four texts on one title card in the Chinese Film Classics...
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Love and Duty: Translating Films and Teaching Online Through a Pandemic
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The Chinese Film Classics project, launched in 2020, is an online research and teaching initiative aimed at making early Chinese films and cinema history more accessible to the general public. Led by Christopher Rea at the University of British Columbia, the project is centered on the website http://chinesefilmclassics.org and the companion YouTube...
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... eventual published version will have intertitles with four texts: Chinese, English translation of the Chinese, Norwegian, and English translation of the Norwegian-a crowded frame but also a unique document that will allow audiences to see how the Norwegian and Chinese meanings differ from each other (see figure 4). This is where online viewing is superior to traditional screening; if needed, one can press pause or rewind. ...