id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cinej-764	Zhu, Yankun; Cheung, Ming	Symbolic Metaphors of Film Epidemic Narratives: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Foreign Epidemic Disaster Films	2025	43	.pdf	application/pdf	11033	443	50	In this regard, we conduct a comparative study to explore the similarities and differences between the symbolic metaphors of Chinese epidemic disaster films and those of Europe, Japan, South Korea, and the US. Chinese epidemic disaster films, with the exception of a few such as Fall of Ming (2013, directed by Jing Wang) and The Revenge of Plant (2018, directed by Huang Huang), are less concerned with the source of infectious diseases, and most of the relevant ideograms are missing.	cache/cinej-764.pdf	txt/cinej-764.txt