Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Film Screening: The Revolutionary
The Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies presents a screening of The Revolutionary
Where
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Q&A with the producers immedietly following the screening
Sidney Rittenberg arrived in China as a GI Chinese language expert at the end of World War II. Discharged there, he joined the Chinese Communist Party, and was an active participant in the Chinese communist revolution and its aftermath. An intimate of the Party’s leadership, including Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, he gained prominence at the Broadcast Administration, one of the most important agencies of government. But in the convulsions of a giant country constantly reinventing itself, he twice ran afoul of the leadership, and served a total of 16 years in solitary confinement. He returned to the United States in 1980.
Irv Drasnin
Producer, Writer, Interviewer, Narrator
Lucy Ostrander
Producer
Don Sellers
Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Joel Goodman
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