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China Stories

China Stories

CHINA STORIES IV

1. Behind the Scene
2. The Birthmark of a Village (Leprosy Village)
3. Reap What You Sow
4. Silo-Cave
5. A Step Away

5 DVDs (With English Subtitles) / 2019 / 150 minutes

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CHINA STORIES IV: A STEP AWAY

China, Socialism, socialist market economy, Deng Xiaoping, Economic reforms

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2019 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES IV: BEHIND THE SCENE

Some people commented 2018 was "Year of Idol" in Mainland China. Two reality competitions shows were popular among youngsters and became a hot topic on internet. How the young trainees struggle for the competition and stay at audience's heart?

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2019 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES IV: REAP WHAT YOU SOW

As a way of managing increasing social tensions in Chinese society, the government have been trying to rebuild social work as a profession in recent years. However, supporting institutions remain immature and resources implored focus in urban area and undermine the needs in rural area. Young Chinese social workers were frustrated for not being able to make any impact in developing a self-sustained community, instead, endless scattered short-term cases needed to be handled only when incidents happened. Some of them therefore decided to start social work campaigns in rural area, hoping to find a way to turn rural economy self-sustainable.

Xian Liang Xi Village, like most of the rural villages in China, loses its vitality since most youngsters migrated into cities to look for jobs. Some social workers tried to organize women who are left behind to run a hostel business. They thought this would help these women to gain confidence and hence a way of living without to need to move to cities. Later, youngsters, who were tired to leaving home in exchange for a busy life-style, were also motivated by them and come back to work with these social workers, hoping to make the village economically self-sustainable again.

As outsiders, would these social workers be able to bring back vitality to Xian Lian Xi Village? Under the current Chinese state policies that aim at developing cities by undermining rural areas, what difficulties would they encounter?

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2019 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES IV: SILO-CAVE

The protection of Silo-Cave building.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2019 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES IV: THE BIRTHMARK OF A VILLAGE (LEPROSY VILLAGE)

No one could choose their own family; and these children were born in an isolated leprosy rehabilitation village.

In 1950s, their ancestors were infected with leprosy and forcingly isolated in Dai Huo Di Village in Yunnan Province, where they started a new life and settled down. Despite of the fact that all the patients there were completely cured in 1980s-90s, the name of "leprosy village" is still lingering the village today, and the healthy children are being labeled, discriminated and even having difficulties to go to school properly.

While everyone see Da Huo Di as a cursed place, it is yet a heartwarming home in 19-year-old Fu Chao Wen's eyes.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2019 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES III

In the last few decades, China has been experiencing tremendous changes in its economy, society and infrastructure. Each episode of "China Stories" shows audience China by presenting them with stories, characters and images, in the hope that they may understand what the Chinese think, do, and care about now. Leaders have dreams, but what about the dreams of the people?

1. The Lost Generation
2. Master of Suona Horn
3. A Young Conductor
4. Ballerina in a Field

4 DVDs (With English Subtitles) / 2018 / 120 minutes

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CHINA STORIES III: A YOUNG CONDUCTOR

Under "one child policy" in China, like others only child, Lan Yu-peng was given the best his parents could provide. He becomes a young conductor of Chinese orchestra. However, Lan's path is not smooth. Restrictions and bureaucracy is common in many Chinese orchestra and Lan has no way to break through. In the meantime, Lan's father has been sick severely. Lan has to give up his dream but runs his father 's business, so as to maintain the quality of lives of the whole family. Struggling between dreams and reality, may be many only child in China share the same situation.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2018 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES III: BALLERINA IN A FIELD

Duancun is a part of Anxin county in Hebei province. It's a typical Chinese village. The new campus of Duancun School was completed in 2013. Ordinary village children go to school here, but the fate of some pupils changed due to Guan Yu's arrival in the village. In 2013, Guan Yu and his wife Zhang Ping came to Duancun. They offer a systematic art education programme. In the beginning, the obstacles Guan Yu ran into were beyond his imagination.The couple initially just wanted the village children to learn ballet happily. Yet after learning more about the situation in the village, they have a change of mind......

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2018 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES III: MASTER OF SUONA HORN

Suona horn, a musical instrument with traditional Chinese characteristics, is well known for its sound and style. Master of Suona horn, Guo Ya-chi, innovates the techniques and promotes this artistry to western society. It is Guo's dream to make a musical play with Suona horn in Broadway theatre and his dream is getting closer. Guo is getting famous and successful in U.S. and it's time to promote Suona horn in his homeland, China. With all the restrictions and obstacles, can Guo 's path be smooth and straight?

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2018 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES III: THE LOST GENERATION

Hundred thousand of urban youth in Shanghai were sent to Xinjiang in 1960s, in order to construct the infrastructure. Some of them were sent there unwillingly. They have sacrificed better living conditions in urban city, their career and future and led a miserable life in Xinjiang. After fifty years, some of the urban youth went back to their homeland Shanghai in their seventies. They are still living in unstable conditions even though they have been staying in the most prosperous city.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2018 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES II

In the last few decades, China has been experiencing tremendous changes in her economy, society and infrastructure. Her leaders dream about revival of the Chinese race: domestically, they want to lead nationals out of poverty towards a reasonable standard of living; internationally, they want to propel the realization of an economic corridor, via both land and sea, and draft a blueprint for a rising power. Leaders have dreams, but what do their subjects dream about?

Each episode of "China Stories" shows audience around in China by presenting them with the stories of some characters, as well as some images, in the hope that they may understand what the present-day Chinese think, do, and care about.

1. The vanishing shadow
2. The invisible citizens
3. The Rise of Online Celebrities in Mainland
4. Guangxi 1968
5. Building a Utopia
6. Speedy Home Coming
7. The last animal tamer
8. Blind Soccer
9. Human-Elephant Conflict
10. Invisible Wings

10 DVDs / 2016 / 300 minutes

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CHINA STORIES II: BLIND SOCCER

Founded in 2006, China's Blind Football Team has got countless of awards over the decade. They never stop chasing their dreams even without lights in life, and they win for their country and their wonderful life. The team is heading for Rio 2016 Paralympic Games this year although full of injuries. After this game, they're supposed to retire, how's their life going to be? However, the shortage of young team seems to be a stumbling block of the road of the team keep running on.

DVD / 2016 / 25 minutes

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CHINA STORIES II: BUILDING A UTOPIA

In China, to live a better life, you have to be better-off.
Is there another way?
Tang Guanhua, contemporary artist, believes so.
He took the road less travelled by. And that has made all the difference.

In 2011, Tang closed his profit making design company and founded the "China Self-sufficient Laboratory" in the rural outskirt of Qingdao. For 5 years, Tang and his wife had tried to survive by their own wiles, producing everything from shoes to electricity, giving up prestige job and. The experience strengthened his belief that the more one relies on money, the less independent thinking they can have.

Now he goes a step further.
He strives to build a utopia - or in his words, an Intentional Community, the first of its kind in China. On a rural farmland in Fuzhou, Tang and his followers pursued their dream. Having the same visions and values, they want to form a self-sufficient community, sharing skills and talents. It should be environmentally sustainable and it should have its own social structure, education and welfare system. Decisions are to make through deliberation.

While cities in China are crippled by smog, mercenaries and wealth gaps, is such community an alternative for our future generations?

DVD / 2016 / 25 minutes

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CHINA STORIES II: GUANGXI 1968

Cultural Revolution in Guangxi

DVD / 2016 / 25 minutes

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CHINA STORIES II: HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFLICT

Man vs Elephant

Yunnan Province is the last habitat for China's remaining wild elephants. Since 1992, due to the depletion of natural habitat caused by human activities, elephants have frequented villages in Xishuangbanna where they've destroyed crops and houses and injured people.

DVD / 2016 / 25 minutes

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CHINA STORIES II: INVISIBLE WINGS

In the Xishan District, thirty or so kilometres away from the city of Kunming, is a kingdom that is known for being a paradise on earth. Everyday, pilgrims from throughout the nation pour in. But the land of stories isn't all magical, even fairytales can be disturbing. The theme park is painted as a loving community but just like the outside world, the park is full of cliques. People under the height of 1.5 metres, who suffer from dwarfism like Chen Jianquan number at 8 million in Mainland China. They are seen as outsiders, and it is difficult for them to assimilate into society. What Chen Jianquan hopes for the most is to return to his parents.

DVD / 2016 / 25 minutes

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CHINA STORIES II: SPEEDY HOME COMING

In the last few decades, China has been experiencing tremendous changes in her economy, society and infrastructure. Her leaders dream about revival of the Chinese race: domestically, they want to lead nationals out of poverty towards a reasonable standard of living; internationally, they want to propel the realization of an economic corridor, via both land and sea, and draft a blueprint for a rising power. Leaders have dreams, but what do their subjects dream about?

Each episode of "China Stories" shows audience around in China by presenting them with the stories of some characters, as well as some images, in the hope that they may understand what the present-day Chinese think, do, and care about.

DVD / 2016 / 25 minutes

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CHINA STORIES II: THE INVISIBLE CITIZENS

2016.1.1 marks the end of China's one-child policy, allowing all couples to give birth for second kid since draconian family planning rules were introduced more than 30 years ago.

The policy is said to be an elixir for the aging community in China, albeit previous fine-tuning policy such as "selective two-child policy" fails to encourage couple to have two kids.

While kids that are born in and after 2016 are "contributors" to the aging problems in China, kids that were born before were called the "invisible men" simple because their parents.

As seen through the eyes of the second kid without identity, this documentary further examines the pains and problems left as a result of the one child policy and the greater meaning it holds about the essence of birth control.

DVD / 2016 / 25 minutes

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CHINA STORIES II: THE LAST ANIMAL TAMER

Taogou Village is a county in Suzhou city, Anhui Province, the only place where training animal for circus performance in China, it's also called the origin of the Chinese circus because 90% of the circus teams are from here. In the village, hundred of lions, tigers, bears are conducting "talent training" every day, there are over 300 circuses in the village with over 20,000 employees, annual income over 300 millions, circus becomes the biggest business in the town.

Wei Zheng joined the circus when he was in 17 and now is a circus owner, the 3rd generation of the circus family. Wei's family started circus performance over 100 years since his grandfather. However, the law of anti-abusing animal implied recently, the way of training animal is claimed as inhumanity, despite the fact that the circus industry in China has a long history, it declines as a result. As a national intangible cultural heritage, how will it survive? Is it time to be banned? Will Wei Zheng be the last animal tamer? All those questions are harassing him.

DVD / 2016 / 25 minutes

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CHINA STORIES II: THE RISE OF ONLINE CELEBRITIES IN MAINLAND

Web Stars - a New Force

"Online Celebrity" is becoming a trend in mainland. Through sharing their eye-catching photos or videos, they display a beautiful lifestyle that fulfills the aspiration of their internet followers. Furthermore, these online celebrities have find a way to turn this virtual fame and support into real fortune.

Eve Cheung, a famous online celebrity from Shanghai, has started her online boutique which sale over hundred millions every year. Adonis Liao, another online celebrity from Beijing, believes that the digital age allows even the most ordinary people to display their talents to the world, which he found good-looking is definitely an advantage that he wants to pursue...

DVD / 2016 / 25 minutes

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CHINA STORIES II: THE VANISHING SHADOW

Does the rise of GDP reflect the rise of a great nation? Wang shao-sen, Sen, does not agree. Sen is a post 80's youth who owns a silk cloth company in Dalian. Two years ago, he watched a shadow play show held by E Wen-wu, an 80 years old Chinese shadow play show artist, in an old cinema. Sen was impressed by the show. He designed to prepare a nationwide shadow play tour for the old artists. However, he finds it is hard to renew people's interest on traditional culture even he gave up his own silk business and lost 20 thousand RMB to promote the shows.

Finally, he finds a way out with an unexpected channel-internet crowd-funding platform in China. What will happen when the traditional culture and the new media collide?

DVD / 2016 / 25 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I

China has experienced tremendous changes in terms of her economic, socialand infrastructural developments in the recent decades. She has progressed from poverty to moderate prosperity. However, prosperity is achieved at the expense of unprecedented social problems, including environmental pollution, food safety issue and moral degeneration. On the other hand, we also see the struggles of individuals. Some parents are ready to do anything to make their children succeed in life; someone still feels emptiness despite the possession of a fortune while someone else still holds to his ideals and beliefs despite numerous failures and attempts ...

Upon coming to the crossroad, one cannot help but ask: Which direction will China go?

What has modernisation brought to the 1.3 billion people on the soil of China? What will be the next step?

1. A New Age
2. Through the Eyes of Villagers
3. Mayor, Policeman and Teacher
4. The Stage of Their Own
5. A Way Out
6. The Predicament of Wenzhou
7. The Inventor's Dream
8. Lost & Found
9. Dreams of Stardom
10. Laobanzhang
11. Life in Dafen
12. My Husband is Gay

12 DVDs (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 360 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: A NEW AGE

Once upon a time, a steady job was a dream pursued by Chinese youth. But now, young people are no longer content with a steady job. Many of them choose to start their own businesses, hoping to become wealthy, to challenge themselves and to reflect their values.

The idea of starting one's business seems prosperous in the relatively improved business environment, despite such ideas come with great risk.

In this episode, we follow a few young entrepreneurs to record their stories. Some of them have already experienced success while the others are still fighting alone. Despite their future is unpredictable, they nonetheless represent the most genuine and bravest side of Chinese youth today.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: A WAY OUT

Since the policy of reform and opening-up, China has experienced a series of reforms and attained huge success. However, such success was absent in the reforms regarding state-owned enterprises.

Chongqing Beibei Glassware Factory is one of the many trouble-struck state-owned enterprises. As a business with long history, the Factory has experienced both opportunities and difficulties brought by the market economy system and the structure reform. Despite various efforts have been made, it still failed to reduce its debt burdens.

In this episode, we will record various reforms of the Factory from glory to decline, and show how the people of the factory try to save the business.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: DREAMS OF STARDOM

The great voice, inspiring stories, no expense was spared with the production. In the past decade, music talent shows have become a big hit on the Mainland.

Many musicians want to get on stage. Many dream chasers long to be famous overnight. But after being a rising star, can they really make their dreams come true?

How endless, similar talent shows affect the music industry in China.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: LAOBANZHANG

Every spring, many Pu'er lovers travel a long way here to search for tea trees over a hundred years old. This ancient tea garden covering continuous mountain ridges is full of footprints of tea drinkers from afar. It has changed the Laobanzhang Village, a village inhibited by only a hundred households of Hani people In the past, generations of Hani in the village had to walk for six hours along mountain roads to the county town. Through a decade of transformation each household now owns vehicles. Wooden huts in the past are almost extinct. The traditional culture of Laobanzhang village is being washed out by modern civilization, and the materialistic society.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: LIFE IN DAFEN

Dafen Village, Longgang, Shenzhen, was a backward village. In the early 90s, A Hong Kong oil painting merchant spotted its affordable land price and low labour cost.

He decided to rent houses here and hired students and painters to reproduce oil paintings. Dafen thus became specialised in painting reproductions, annually exporting one million oil paintings to the world . As there are many opportunities, many painters come here to work.

In recent years, Dafen Village is undergoing a transformation. The reproductions will be gradually eliminated. Painters hover between life and art. Despite challenges, they never give up.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: LOST & FOUND

Jin Huaqing, a documentary filmmaker born in the 80s, grows up in the countryside, transforms from poverty to affluence, pretty much follows the same trend of the economic change in China. The themes of his works focus on the underprivileged migrant workers, the elderly, children, and women, and also on social issues such as poverty, disease and environmental issues.

He has been working in a television station for over a decade, but his works are often censored by his superiors before they are being broadcasted. Ironically, the uncut versions of his works have gained much attention from international film festivals and won many awards since. In 2014, he decided to quit his job in television station and planned to be an independent filmmaker. His next project embarks on a remote area in Sichuan called Ayo Temple, where thousands of nuns reside.

It is not an easy task. Director Jin Huaqing has to deal with extreme cold temperature, acute mountain sickness, and language barrier in Tibetans. All these difficulties are within the grasp of Jin, but under the current political climate in Mainland China, is it possible to accommodate people like Jin to express criticism and deeper reflection in documentary.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: MAYOR, POLICEMAN AND TEACHER

With support of a civilian organization overseas, three students from families in poverty had achieved their dream of being a teacher. A few years later, influenced by the monetary-orientated trend in China, They chose to leave their field. Abandoning their aspiration and the teaching career that they were fond of, they became government cadre and policeman.

The programme documented the changes and struggles of these three young men who once shared a common dream and are now striving for different kinds of life.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: MY HUSBAND IS GAY

"Tongqi" is a Chinese language neologism for women who have married gay men. To continue the family bloodline is one of the most important values to a traditional Chinese family. Most gay men will choose to marry a woman as requested by parents.

According to Professor Zhang Bei-Chuan, there are around 14 million "Tongqi" in China. Most of them have no idea about the homosexual identity of their partners until their first child was born. Some of them will even not be informed until the end of their life.

Teresa from Wuhan was once a "Tongqi". Her husband came out to her two months after their wedding. In this documentary, Teresa shares her experience of being a "Tongqi" and how it changed her life. Fortunately, her "Tongqi" experience does not ruin her life. In contrary, she chooses to dedicate her life to help other "Tongqi" to walk out of darkness.

"Tongqi is living beneath a roof of ice," said by Professor Zhang Bei-Chuan. Nearly none of them is willing to share their story to public openly. However, Teresa is determined to do so, with the hope that she can be the last "Tongqi" in history.

This year's Lantern Festival in Quanzhou, Teresa, dressed in a pink cheongsam, walking on the street to promote "Tongqi" to thousands of public. Feedback from the crowd is diverse. Some clapped to encourage, while some yelled to fight back. All of the above is the story of Teresa, one of the 14 million "Tongqi" in China.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: THE INVENTOR'S DREAM

When talking of robots, you often picture a Hollywood movie, not a machine easily used by people. However, an illiterate farmer called Wu Yulu in Beijing has invented over 60 robots. And they are not meant for display - they could help in household chores and even draw.

There are over 1 million DIY inventors like Wu Yulu, pursue their invention dreams with limited capitals and scrap metals in nowadays China. They are peasants, engineers, and entrepreneurs who have taken on ambitious do-it-yourself projects, constructing homemade submarines, helicopters, robots, safety equipment, weapons and much more.

It is partly driven by the government's ambitions to transform the economy from "Made in China" to "Created in China." And this explains why China is the world's patent leader for four consecutive years.

Behind this national fame, however, inventors in China hardly find ways to protect their patent rights against infringers. As such, how can they pursue their "China dreams" with all these constraints?

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: THE PREDICAMENT OF WENZHOU

Wenzhou is a city with the most vibrant private sectors. Wenzhounese are very good at doing business so they are hailed as the "Jews of the Orient". Since the reform and opening up, Wenzhou has become a leader in private business. Recently, the credit crunch has hit our local private companies.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: THE STAGE OF THEIR OWN

Guangzhou is the largest city in south China. It has a long and deep-rooted history and culture. As the wheel of time turns, this old city has undergone tremendous changes. A group of young Guangzhou natives uses Cantonese rap music to speak for the oppressed citizens here.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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CHINA STORIES I: THROUGH THE EYES OF VILLAGERS

In western China, men, animals and nature blend with each other. Hunters, shepherds and farmers will shoot with camcorders in a workshop called

"Through the Eyes of Villagers" to record the connections between man and nature and to show their concerns about environmental changes.

DVD (With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 30 minutes

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