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

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 1:21 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Seeking Chinese films about overseas Chinese

> H-ASIA
> November 5, 2011
>
> Further response re: seeking Chinese films about overseas Chinese
> *****************************************************************
> From: Guo Wu <gwu@allegheny.edu>
>
> With reference to the query on Chinese films on overseas Chinese:
>
> I am thinking of a film titled "Hai, Fulanke" [Hi Frank ] (2002)
> directed by Huang Shuqin. The film is about an old Chinese woman
> visiting her children living in the US and a series of cultural
> shocks and miscommunication she has to face.
>
> A Hong Kong 182-part long documentary titled "Xunzhao taxiang
> de gushi" (Stories from Afar) (1997) provides a comprehensive review
> of contemporary overseas Chinese survival and life stories in over
> 50 countries around the world.
>
> A 1990 Hong Kong film Ai zai biexiang de jijie [Farewell China]
> starring Maggie Chueng and Tony Leung Kar-fai tells the story of a
> husband tracking his missing wife who went to New York from
> mainland China but never returned.
>
> Guo Wu
> History Department
> Allegheny College
>
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