Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Screen/Society AMI Showcase--Cine-East: East Asian Cinema (China) "Summary of Crimes"
Duke University's Cine-East Series presents a screening of the documentary, "Summary of Crimes." The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Xu Xing.
When:
October 27, 2015 7:00pm to 9:45pm
Where
Series Name: Cine-East Series
Presenter: Q&A to follow w/ filmmaker Xu Xing!
Sponsors: Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
Contact: Okazaki, Hank
Email: hokazak@duke.edu
Film Screening: "Summary of Crimes" (Xu Xing, 2014, 135 min, China, in Mandarin w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD) / A film about farmers who were labelled as "counter-revolutionaries" due to careless talk or accidental actions during the Cultural Revolution. By visiting almost all the countryside in Zhejiang Province, Xu found 13 farmers whose lives were destroyed after they were labeled as "counter-revolutionaries." Most of them were never able to shake off the stigma even after the movement was condemned in the late 1970s and many people rehabilitated. The fear of power created during the persecutions has never disappeared among these farmers. Xu said that "We've heard of stories about famous people being criticized and punished during the Cultural Revolution, but we seldom hear about ordinary farmers' experiences."
About the filmmaker: XU Xing is a writer, documentary film maker and public intellectual currently residing in Beijing. As a writer he became iconic in the 1980s with his work "Variations Without a Theme", that defined the mood of the Chinese youth of that period. During the Cultural Revolution, Xu was left by himself as a child - his parents had been sent far away for re-education - and he travelled and wandered in many distant places of China. Xu emigrated for Germany in 1989, and didn't return for four years. He revisited his experiences as a rebellious youth in the early 70s in one of his recent documentaries.
Cost:
Free and Open to the Public
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