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Research Article

Daughters of jianghu: female heroism in Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin and Ash Is Purest White

Pages 874-887 | Received 12 Nov 2020, Accepted 14 Oct 2021, Published online: 09 Jan 2022

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