A mental note to myself – go see Avatar! Meanwhile, however, please find below a great compilation / analysis of Chinese viewpoints to the film from our fellow MA from SOAS, Andy Yee. Andy is is currently graduate student in Pacific Asian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and I am trying to get him to contribute more to Carousel! in the upcoming months. Looking forward to another post-essay-coitum term of interesting writings / projects on the site. Crossposted from Global Voices Online.

As a target of commodification, panda is used not only by native Chinese artist but also professional cultural business capitalists.Just look around of yourself, it seems there is nothing can not be commodified. Even god itself can’t escape from this!