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[Anonymous]

I would tie the Ip Man series to the Boxer Rebellion at the end of the 19th century. It's a far stretch but the series will give students an idea of what Chinese "Boxing" looks like. Also, the movies also showed the extent of opium in the Chinese pastimes. In Ip Man 2, Ip Man was fighting against the Western boxer which is a Chinese nationalistic interpretation of what happened during the Boxer Rebellion. Again, it's a far stretch chronologically but thematically congruent.