I watched a Chinese propaganda movie last night. They’re getting pretty good. This one was awarded Best Art Direction at the 2012 Pyongyang International Film Festival so the quality was superior.

The movie, Hsue-Shen Tsien, is a biopic about the Chinese physicist of the same name (also spelled Qian Xuesen), who studied at MIT and Caltech and worked on rocketry for the U.S. Department of Defense until his security clearance was revoked in 1950. He returned to China and became the father of their missile program.

The movie depicts the same facts that appear in American history books about Qian, but the emphasis is very different.