Fw: H-ASIA: Seeking Chinese Films on Overseas Chinese

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From: "Frank F Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 1:31 AM
Subject: H-ASIA: Seeking Chinese Films on Overseas Chinese

> H-ASIA
> November 5, 2011
>
> Further response re: Seeking Chinese Films on Overseas Chinese
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> From: Alex Akin <akin.alex@gmail.com>
>
> For a documentary series on the topic, see the Hong Kong television
> program Xunzhao taxiang de gushi 寻找他乡的故事. The series focuses
> on how many of these emigrants left under conditions of financial
> hardship or misapprehensions about what to expect abroad; their
> tales are generally quite depressing (for example, a shopkeeper
> in Uganda has to wear a scarf around his head because a robber
> shot off his face; his wife tearfully recounts instances of
> violent harassment. Some elderly men in the Ukraine have to grow
> their own vegetables to fend off starvation). When this was aired
> on Chinese television in San Francisco in the late 1990s my wife
> and I joked that it must have been intended as propaganda to
> prevent Mainlanders from wanting to go abroad, but in fact
> because of its HK production it is pretty evenhanded, simply
> showing the dark side of life abroad for less educated or less
> well-connected migrants. The series is in Chinese; it has
> subtitles (in characters) for the different dialects spoken by the
> emigrants. Perhaps someone out there knows if an English subtitled
> version is available.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -Alexander Akin
> Bolerium Books, San Francisco
>
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