Andre’s Reviews > Shang-Chi (2020) #4 > Status Update

Ps. I checked it and unless Shang Chi a psychic, he shouldn't be able to call up his dead uncle so easily. Plus why is his dead uncle dressing like a Qing official?

Over already? Well, at least it can keep my interested. Even if only to see how much Yang will further retcon, excuse and downright demonize people and misuse history to come across almost propagandistic.

That monster spouts exposition about Chi being destined to destroy the earth instead of killing Takeshi outright. So far I at least considered Yang a good writer, if reeking of racism and propaganda, but this is just Greg Pak level bad.

That backstory tries to portray Zheng Zu even more as a noble man than the stuff before. Him wanting to sacrifice himself for his brother and all. And Harkness refers to Zu as a Chinaman, but did Brits even use that term back then? And Zi outright says that the story Chi knows is a lie by his father to perpetuate fear. Yang is going out of his way to retcon that all apparently.

Is this supposed to insinuate that the Opium wars made China weak and frail as they did the Five Weapons society? If yes, Yang is an idiot. The 1800s was full of rebellions in the Qing empire, the biggest being the Taiping civil war, which caused 20-30 million deaths and raged at the same time as the Opium Wars.

I have the feeling that the reason Yang wrote that the Brits tried to flood China with Opium in the 1800s and when China resisted declared war instead of being more specific about the two Opium wars is because he doesn't know or doesn't care. Especially since there are no French people to be seen anywhere, even though they were in the 2nd war. Naturally, all British soldiers are white. Guess no diversity for them.

Oh great lecture about the tomb sweeping ritual and that its something his people have always done to remind them that past and present are not so far apart.... odd, I never heard of that before. In fact, the whole honoring the ancestors thing in old stories or books about them, if it mentions that at all, it was to make sure they are not pissed off. And

"Be ever victorious, Brother Hand! Be ever victorious!"
Who talks like that and who writes like that? Yang didn't write like this in his other works. Does he try to have them sound ancient chinese or what? If yes, why is this ok but stuff like Mulan gets lambasted?

Henan province... why am I not surprised. Did they chose that location for touristic scenery? And that monster guarding the tomb looks like a greek chimera with several human arms around its neck.

Ps. The summary states that Shang-Chi was infected by a jiang shi and becomes one of them. But how? Aren't jiang shi created by the hun leaving the body and the po remaining?