The answer is, of course, yes!
The recent live-action movie Barbie has become the newest sensation worldwide. Childhood fans of Barbie or not, everyone is excited!
Does China not have a Barbie to call her own, though? I couldn’t quite believe that our country, always famed for coming up with just about any invention under the sun, would miss out on the whole doll thing. Did our ancestors truly pass on dolls? Soon enough, my research allowed me to see that this hadn’t been the case at all.
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Ana Padilla Fornieles is a Spanish translator, writer and creative currently based in Beijing, where she is part of Spittoon International Arts Collective and a regular contributor to The Beijinger. You can find her prose and poetry featured in The Shanghai Literary Review, Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, Womanhood, Sledgehammer and more. Her comics and linocut prints have appeared in Shaving in the Dark, F*EMS and Celestite Poetry. Her literary translation work has been published or is forthcoming with a series of publishing houses and magazines, such as Penguin, De Gruyter, Spittoon Magazine and Books from Taiwan.
