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Beijing Doc: A Report on Nonfiction Filmmaking in China

Last summer, as part of an exchange program with the University of Southern California and the Communication University of China, I set off with six USC students and fellow US filmmaker Johanna Demetrakas to teach a six-week documentary workshop in Beijing, China. 

With China in the headlines almost daily, I wondered what I'd encounter. I'd spent a month there in 1984--only eight years after Mao died--and I remembered Beijing as a chaotic sea of bicycles, powered by citizens dressed in somber green and blue "Mao jackets." Foreigners were required to stay in cordoned-off hotels; few Chinese dared talk to us Westerners; I saw no free enterprise anywhere. 

The difference between China then and now is astonishing. I saw a smooth web of cars; a sea of mini-skirts and bell-bottoms; and a bustling capitalism was everywhere, from street vendors to giant electronic billboards to state-run television news reports about the bull stock market and advice for newbie investors. When I remarked on this to one of my students, she quickly corrected me: "It's not capitalism, it's free-market reforms." 

Beijing, and much of China, is a society in rapid, dizzying transition. The New York Times has called this "The

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Delving for Memories: an exploration of Wu Wenguang’s the Memory Project

The Memory Project was launched by Chinese pioneer independent filmmaker Wu Wenguang (吴文光 i) to document oral histories from survivors of the Great Famine that devastated China as the "Three Years of Natural Disasters", and caused the death of between 20 and 43 million people. The interviews collected widely across rural China add intimate detail and humanity to the story of the deaths and starvation of millions of Chinese, providing a unique perspective on the unofficial history of the Great Famine. Duke University Libraries is the exclusive home for the project archives making raw footage available to students, researchers and the general public. The workshop will introduce the project, provide a tutorial on accessing archival materials and feature multiple filmmakers from China.

Speakers:

Guo-Juin Hong, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University, who introduced the project and the filmmakers to the Duke community, is also collaborator of the Memory Project archives at Duke University Libraries.

Zhang Mengqi, a Chinese documentary filmmaker and performer, who joined the project from the beginning, has developed a series of Self-Portraits in her father's village.

Yu Shuang, a D