A scene from the 1984 movie Breakin' (director Joel Silberg), released in China in 1987 with great success.

See also:

Emily Wilcox, "Moonwalking in Beijing: Michael Jackson, piliwu, and the origins of Chinese hip-hop", Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 23:2 (2022), 302–321 https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2022.2064610