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IP Man Intro
 Martial arts film (kung fu flic)
 Historical background drama
 Enough elements of real drama
 2008
 Not grand master 2013 IP man or any of the sequels
 There are a bunch of movies that have come out recently
 Semi auto biographical – very loosely based on the events on the events of the life of IP
Man
o Real life human
o Master of Wing Chung
 Takes place in Foshan in Guangzhou / Guangdong province near Hong Kong a
o The epic enter of southern Chinese culture
o Guangdong is the province
o Guangzhou also known as (Canton) is the capital city of Guangdong
 Cantonese cooking/ restaurants comes from here
 Big country with multiple cultures
 Northern roughnecks are going to challenge southern style in movie
o An epicenter of martial arts in the south of China
 Multiple schools and specific martial arts styles
 This place and Hong Kong is the epicenter of martial arts movies
 Showing a depiction though slightly glorified – how did life change during the Japanese
occupation during the “second Sino Japanese war” AKA WWII every country has a
different name for things
o China considers it second Sino-Japanese war / their imperialism
 Guangdong Province
o Rich province
o Always been a trade epicenter
o Heavily populated
o Southern culture
o Foshan
 Prefecture level city
 Not a full fledged city
 Administrative unit
 Next-door to Guangzhou
o Capital and largest city of Guangdong
o Third largest city period
o Might be the richest
o One giant heavily populated urban area
 Hong Kong and Macao are in this province
 This is the Pearl River delta region
 Pulls in all trade from country side which then flows out into the
world

 Has been the trading epicenter forever both in and out of china
o Silks, teas, etc
 Tons and tons of money
 Highly cultured and wealthy even 100 years ago
 There is an upper and middle class
 Vibrant and hugely urban
 There are poor people, like in any city
 Showing the before and after of the Japanese occupation
o 1937-1945 “WWII” or Japan’s imperial rise and attempted conquest of all of asia
specifically china
o Result of decades long Japanese attempt to dominate Asia, Australia, and India
o They needed resources, labor, and stuff
 Second Sino Japanese war 1937-1945 – Japanese Imperialistic military invasion (WWII)
o The first 1894-1895
o Control over Korean peninsula
o Japan dominated and china went into decline
o One of the first fights Japan picked
 This was pretty intentional
 China was kind of in-charge of Korea
 They wanted the resources and labor
 North eastern China
 Marco polo bridge incident 7 July 1937
o The spark of the full second war
o Japanese picked a fight on purpose and baited Chinese
troops to shoot at them and then invaded manchuria
o Largest Asian war in the 20 th century
o Japan took over costal China – major cities first.