Fw: H-ASIA: Seeking Chinese films about overseas Chinese

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From: "Frank F Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 11:30 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Seeking Chinese films about overseas Chinese

> H-ASIA
> November 5, 2011
>
> Response re: seeking Chinese films about overseas Chinese
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> From: Kristin E Stapleton <kstaple@buffalo.edu>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have a couple of suggestions for Vanessa Frangville: the 1982
> film "Mumaren" (牧马人), English title "The Herdsman," directed
> by Xie Jin 谢晋, features a wealthy Chinese-American businessman
> who returns to China to try to persuade his left-behind-in-1949
> son to go to America and join his company. A scene in the Beijing
> Hotel disco features the ABBA song "Money, Money, Money," one of
> the many things that make me love this film.
>
> Another film from the same era -- "Daili Shizhang" (代理市长)
> "Acting Mayor," directed by Yang Zaibao 杨在葆 -- tells the story
> of a city administrator who struggles against jealous and corrupt
> colleagues who attack him in part because he is a returned
> overseas Chinese (from Indonesia, I recall). A great film for city
> planning buffs!
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Kristin
>
> =================
> Kristin Stapleton
> kstaple@buffalo.edu
>
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