Princess Iron Fan (1942)

My advisor P. showed an excerpt of this old war-era Chinese cartoon to his class:
It's actually pretty engrossing, even if you don't speak Chinese. Archive.org also has the complete film for free download, and there are English subtitles also available.

When I saw it, I was immediately reminded that Mao Zedong made a reference to Monkey in an agitprop piece from the same year the movie came out. He must have been drawing on the movie's popularity at the time! Mao wrote,

As for the question of how to deal with the enemy's enormous apparatus, we can learn from the example of how the Monkey King dealt with Princess Iron Fan. The Princess was a formidable demon, but by changing himself into a tiny insect the Monkey King made his way into her stomach and overpowered her.

若说：何以对付敌人的庞大机构呢？那就有孙行者对付铁扇公主为例。铁扇公主虽然是一个厉害的妖精，孙行者却化为一个小虫钻进铁扇公主的心脏里去把她战败了。

From the Liberation Daily 《解放日报》, in Yan'an, September 7, 1942.