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Through a Lens: Exploring China in Documentaries & Feature Films THROUGH A LENS: EXPLORING CHINA IN DOCUMENTARIES & FEATURE FILMS Tese Wintz Neighbor National Consortium for Teaching about Asia East Asia Resource Center University of Washington THROUGH A LENS: EXPLORING CHINA IN DOCUMENTARIES & FEATURE FILMS Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, which began in This resource is dedicated to my old friend 1978 following the Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, and comrade-in-much-of-my-life, Zhang resulted in rapid economic growth that catapulted the Yan (1922-2018) and to the youth of People’s Republic of China through a period of intense China. modernization and development. This guide has been organized for teachers who are interested in studying USING THESE RESOURCES contemporary China through film. The information regarding each film This is not a comprehensive list. The annotated lists has been excerpted directly from the include mostly films directed and produced in China. In websites. Some were taken from film general, I have not included many films produced in festival websites, some from film Taiwan or Hong Kong or other countries in Asia. I have reviews, others from Wikipedia. I have included some films that were made with US-China included short trailers, reviews, teacher cooperation. I have also included a smattering of guides, and articles of interest. Chinese TV documentaries and Western TV documentaries. I have taken the liberty to throw in films There are different ways to access such as The Farewell and Finding Ying Ying. And throw out these documentaries and films. They some violent thrillers and sappy romcoms. can be downloaded directly from the Filmmakers’ names are copied from the source cited. web or local libraries, on Netflix, Yes. It is confusing. Some sites use the Chinese name as Kanopy, Amazon Prime, HULU, etc. expected with the surname first (Zhang Yimou), others They can also be purchased directly put the surname last (Yimou Zhang) in western style. from the producer or from online All Chinese language films noted here include English stores. At the time of this “printing” subtitles. (5/21), I have indicated films that can be downloaded for free online. This is a I hope this list illuminates the growing accessibility of changing list and I encourage you to go diverse films portraying a changing China. I have to JustWatch where you can easily confidence that you will find a movie or two that can be find out where to watch your movie used in your classroom. Some films are as short as 7 choice: justwatch.com/us. minutes, others are as long as 554 minutes. This is a Kanopy https://spl.kanopy.com/ adds work of labor and love and is still in progress. new movies every week and is free with Tese ([email protected]) May 2021 your library card. CONTENTS Kanopy downloads Documentaries 2 - 88 Feature Films 89 - 146 Teacher Guide Film Resources 147 - 153 Tese’s favorites 1 DOCUMENTARIES (Listed in chronological order of film release) THE SIX — 2021 (100 MINUTES) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8517640/ The Six is a documentary that tells the unknown story of the Chinese passengers on board Titanic. Through the work of the team of researchers - led by historian Steven Schwankert - the central mysteries of their story are tackled: how did they survive the accident at such a high rate and, afterwards, why did they disappear from the history books so completely within 24 hours of arriving in the US? While most of the 700 or so survivors of Titanic were celebrated in their home countries, and to this day are regularly covered in the press on Titanic anniversaries, the Chinese men on Titanic were never interviewed, and never claimed by relatives, making their experience unique. Podcast interview with Arthur Jones and writer Steven Schwankert: https://supchina.com/podcast/searching-for-the-six-chinese-survivors-of-the-titanic / Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxpTnSZvX4c BEETHOVEN IN BEIJING — 2021 (83 MINUTES) https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/beethoven-in-beijing- about/12364/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=greatperforma nces_2021#GreatPerformancesPBS Great Performances: Beethoven in Beijing spotlights the resurgence of classical music in China through the legacy of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the first American orchestra to perform in China in 1973. Following the end of China’s Cultural Revolution, when Western classical music was banned in favor of politically themed works, the onset of “Beethoven fever” began. Narrated by American and Chinese musicians and historians, the film explores the impact of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s historic tour on China both then and now. Renowned musicians, including Academy Award-winning composer Tan Dun, Philadelphia-trained famed classical pianist Lang Lang, Philadelphia Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and more share their stories of how Beethoven’s music shaped their careers as China’s classical music scene boomed. Featuring archival footage and first-person recollections from American and Chinese musicians, the documentary brings the 1973 visit to life alongside a behind-the-scenes look at present-day tours capturing the dynamism of China, from its new concert halls to its tens of thousands of young musicians. Stream entire film at website listed above. IN THE SAME BREATH — 2021 (95 MINUTES) https://deadline.com/video/coronavirus-china-sundance-in-the-same-breath-nanfu-wang- interview-hbo/ Nanfu Wang’s deeply personal In the Same Breath recounts the origin and spread of the novel coronavirus from the earliest days of the outbreak in Wuhan to its rampage across the United States. 2 Shot very up-close and personal with dozens of cameras and freelancers in the emergency wards, ambulances and dark heart of the crisis in Wuhan and all over the People’s Republic, In the Same Breath brings a damning critical perspective on misinformation and incompetence not only in China, but here in America too. “I think the people in the two countries tend to believe that we are very different,” Wang said of competing superpowers the PRC and the USA. “What I witnessed and I hope that the film can conveys is how the authority has shaped the narrative of China’s response to the pandemic,” she notes of the propaganda machine at work literally from New Year’s Day 2020 when the first rumors of a new virus started to spread – as you can see in a harrowing clip from In the Same Breath below: “People in China had now formed this memory of this is how it happened and this is how China handled it. And this memory …is more so shaped by the information they consumed, TV, newspaper and social media, the information that was allowed to be presented to them, So, what really struck me is I felt I had seen seeing the history being written in real time, and this is he very of the history that the Chinese people will remember,” Wang notes. Yet, with almost 430,000 deaths from Covid-19 so far, and nearly 26 million confirmed cases here in America, an attempt at an official narrative was not unique to China, Wang states in the film. Review: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/29/in-the-same-breath-review-nanfu- wangs-shattering-covid-19-documentary Interview (11 minutes) with director: https://deadline.com/video/coronavirus-china-sundance- in-the-same-breath-nanfu-wang-interview-hbo/ Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_G1DcbbkQ0&feature=emb_logo 76 DAYS — 2020 (93 MINUTES) https://www.indiewire.com/2020/09/76-days-review-1234586513/ USC …While Wuhan’s story would soon be retold in places like Northern Interview with Italy and New York City, the Director Hao Wu 12/11/20 remarkable documentary 76 Days offers a bracingly https://www.youtube.com/wat immediate view from the frontlines of history — at the ch?v=FfHS4h- C6JY&feature=youtu.be trauma and disequilibrium of being ambushed by a crisis dire enough to define its century. Discretely shot across four Wuhan hospitals without government approval… this fly-in-the-trenches look inside the outbreak is scattered and structureless in a way that makes it seem as if it’s simply taking notes for the history books of the future. But if Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, and their Window into anonymous co-director’s film is more valuable as a time capsule than Wuhan’s Wards: A it is as a piece of cinéma vérité, it still puts a human face on an Nurse’s Video Diary epochal horror that some people have refused to acknowledge even as http://www.sixthtone.com/news/100664 8/Window%20Into%20Wuhan%E2%80 it rages around them… %99s%20Wards:%20A%20Nurse%E2e %80%99s%20Video%20Diary/ …76 Days is an urgent act of witnessing for a world that only tends to see itself clearly in hindsight; the film’s value to future generations is self-evident, but it has just as much to show us in the here and now about the history we’re making alone and together. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwEhn9hgHy4 3 CORONATION — 2020 (113 MINUTES) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/movies/ai-weiwei-coronation-coronavirus.html Ai Weiwei, the artist-activist has secretly assembled a powerful and artful look at how the pandemic was handled in China … The film reflects this broader story through vignettes that follow the events chronologically: It begins on Jan. 23 with a couple driving through a snowy night to return home to a suburb of Wuhan, and ends on April 8 with people burning paper money — a traditional offering to the dead — on a street corner. In between are scenes and stories remarkable for their rare access into the machinery of the Chinese state.
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