Wuhan is a city with both an ancient history     1     a thriving(繁华的) present. Historic relics tell the city’s long history dating     2     3,500 years. In the period of PreQin (770 B.C.--221 B.C),it     3     the land of the State of Chu and the cradle(发源地)

Starting here,    4     followed the great Yangtze River of the brilliant Chu Civilization. and lake network to expand businesses throughout the entire country. In the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)， Hankou became one of the four best-known towns in the country. For centuries, Wuhan has been the center of trade and transportation in     5     China. Today it is     6     important center in central China and a feature of Yangtze River cruises(航行) for sightseers and businessmen     7     from Sichuan to Shanghai or Hong Kong.

The uprising voice of the Revolution of 1911 was     8     here firstly. The revolution aimed to overthrow the Qing Dynasty (1636-1912) and establish the Republican     9     government, is one of the     10     events in modern China.

I Am What I Am (also known as Lion Dance Boy), a Chinese animated feature released on Dec 17,2021, has found itself in the eye of a social media storm---about eyes.

The film revolves around three teenagers from Guangdong province who set out to master the traditional lion dance. While ancient culture is     1     to the plot, the setting is very much the real-world China of today. This alone sets the film apart from most recent Chinese animated     2    : works of high fantasy related to mythology.

Pushing the realism, the filmmakers opted to give the characters relatively small eyes. The idea was to break away from the "beauty standards of online     3     and filter aesthetic (审美) and to try "to explore the aesthetic in animation-from an angle of reality," writes The Global Times, paraphrasing producer Miao Zhang.

For some, though, the designs don't represent Chinese people so much as     4     stereotypes of them. Viewers have taken to social media to condemn the film.

"This is how Chinese people were exaggeratedly portrayed during the     5     period. We've been discriminated against for so long that this doesn't look so strange to some people" reads one Weibo user comment. Another wrote an essay arguing that "narrowed" eyes is a greater     6     to a Chinese person than imagining a Black person eating watermelon and fried chicken in the United States. Large eyes are very common in Chinese cg films. For Zhang, this reflects absorption of foreign ideas, not the small eyes his film contains. The Global Times continues:

The response to narrowed eyes" of the character shows that we lack aesthetic     7     and our aesthetic view of animation has been homogenized (统一化) given the huge influence of Japanese and American animation and the selection of such an ordinary boy perfectly depicts his spirit of strengthen and     8     to life.

I Am What I Am is popular with those who have seen it, earning user scores of 8.3 and 9.5 respectively on film reviewing platforms Douban and Maoyan. Its Chinese box office to date is 164.6 million yuan, according to Entaroup.

The question of racism aside, this controversy shows how     9     to character design can become deep-rooted in the industry, to the point where even a subtle difference makes     10    .