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Why Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Fell Flat in Chinese Theaters ‹ Literary Hub

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While Western leaders like Rupert Murdoch and Bill Clinton were hoping that the American influence would travel to China, Chinese leaders were hoping that they could export some of their values abroad, too. From its earliest interactions with Hollywood, China had harbored an ambition to ship its culture around the world, just as the U.S. had done throughout the 20th century. The holy grail, even in the 1990s, was a Chinese produced movie that made audiences in both countries swoon. The best shot after China’s opening-up came courtesy of Ang Lee, who by the late 1990s had made a handful of acclaimed movies for Hollywood studios, including Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm. Born in Taiwan in 1954, Lee was the eldest son of parents who had fled the civil war in China. The trauma of the Cultural Revolution threaded through his family; his father’s parents were killed because they were landlords when Mao assumed power. Growing up in Taiwan, Lee had ready access to American movies that

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