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Ode to the Emperor

This work tells the harm suffered by children born in China from the 1980s to the 1990s under obedience education. Parents during this period were still influenced by traditional Chinese Confucianism, emphasizing "patriarchy" and "obedience." The father is like an emperor, majestic and forbidden to disobey. But the father is an emperor for the good of his children. Therefore, in this work, I want to use nursery rhymes to show the harm of this kind of education. I also use color filter rule to express this kind of education which seems to be “love” but is “hurt”. The audience sees one photo through the naked eye, and sees another photo by wearing special glasses.

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© 2023 by Xinyue Zhu

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