Law Text Culture Volume 18 The Rule of Law and the Cultural Imaginary in (Post-)colonial East Asia Article 4 2014 Trials and Justice in Awaara: A Post-Colonial Movie on Post-Revolutionary Screens? Alison W. Conner University of Hawaii at Manoa Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc Recommended Citation Conner, Alison W., Trials and Justice in Awaara: A Post-Colonial Movie on Post-Revolutionary Screens?, Law Text Culture, 18, 2014, 33-55. Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol18/iss1/4 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library:
[email protected] Trials and Justice in Awaara: A Post-Colonial Movie on Post-Revolutionary Screens? Abstract Perhaps surprisingly, one of the most popular Chinese movies of all time is actually an Indian film. Filmed in 1951 in newly independent India, Awaara (The Vagabond) was released in China after the official introduction of the opening and reform policies in 1979, when the country embarked on its current post- socialist, post-revolutionary course. Known as Liulangzhe in China, Awaara received a rapturous response from Chinese audiences and even now everyone over a certain age remembers watching the movie. Thanks to the Internet, many younger Chinese have also seen Awaara, sometimes dubbed in Chinese (I first saw it dubbed in Chinese myself), or if they haven’t seen it they can tell you why their parents and grandparents loved it so much. This journal article is available in Law Text Culture: https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol18/iss1/4 Trials and Justice in Awaara: A Post-Colonial Movie on Post-Revolutionary Screens? Alison W Conner Introduction Perhaps surprisingly, one of the most popular Chinese movies of all time is actually an Indian film.