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ChinaFile Presents: Documentary Films From China

In collaboration with the News and Documentary program at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, ChinaFile, the online magazine of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, will present a public screening and discussion of two films by young directors from China.

Emergency Room, directed and produced by Siyi Chen, goes inside a hospital in a second-tier city along China’s east coast, where overworked and underpaid doctors often conduct three-minute consults and carry pepper spray for protection from angry patients. In a country where healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP is well below the international average, thinly spread resources and attacks on doctors have become commonplace.

One Way Home, directed and produced by Qingzi Fan, follows two Tibetan children chosen to study in a government-sponsored Shanghai boarding school exclusively for Tibetan students. These boarding schools prepare thousands of kids to return to Tibet as China’s new elite, but the “first class” education comes with a deep loss of identity, language, and culture.

The screenings of these two documentary shorts will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers, Chen and Fan, Marcia Rock, director of the News and Documentary program, and Jonathan Landreth, managing editor of ChinaFile.











When: Mon., May. 1, 2017 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Ave.
212-288-6400
Price: Free admission, RSVP required
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In collaboration with the News and Documentary program at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, ChinaFile, the online magazine of Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, will present a public screening and discussion of two films by young directors from China.

Emergency Room, directed and produced by Siyi Chen, goes inside a hospital in a second-tier city along China’s east coast, where overworked and underpaid doctors often conduct three-minute consults and carry pepper spray for protection from angry patients. In a country where healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP is well below the international average, thinly spread resources and attacks on doctors have become commonplace.

One Way Home, directed and produced by Qingzi Fan, follows two Tibetan children chosen to study in a government-sponsored Shanghai boarding school exclusively for Tibetan students. These boarding schools prepare thousands of kids to return to Tibet as China’s new elite, but the “first class” education comes with a deep loss of identity, language, and culture.

The screenings of these two documentary shorts will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers, Chen and Fan, Marcia Rock, director of the News and Documentary program, and Jonathan Landreth, managing editor of ChinaFile.

Buy tickets/get more info now