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Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a screening of Nowhere to Call Home, which offers a rare glimpse into the world of a Tibetan farmer, torn between her traditional way of life and her desire for her son to have a better future in the city. Followed by a post-screening discussion with director Jocelyn Ford.
Screening: Nowhere To Call Home
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Time: 4-6 PM
Location: Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, ASC 204， USC
Cost: Free, please rsvp.
Nowhere to Call Home provides a rare glimpse into the world of a Tibetan farmer, torn between her traditional way of life and her desire for her son to have a better future in the city. Shot in the slums of Beijing and a remote village, this gripping story of a woman determined to beat the odds puts a human face on the political strife that fractures China and Tibet. Along the way it challenges common western stereotypes about Tibetans, and reveals a dark side of village life, where, as the saying goes, ''women aren't worth a penny.'' Widowed at 28, Tibetan farmer Zanta defies her tyrannical father-in-law and refuses to marry his only surviving son, who is in prison for armed robbery. When Zanta's in-laws won't let her seven-year-old go to school, she flees to Beijing to become a street vendor. Destitute, and embattled by ethnic discrimination she inveigles a foreign customer into helping pay her boy's school fees. When the three travel back to Zanta''''s village for the New Year holiday, Zanta''''s father-in-law takes her son hostage. The unwitting American journalist faces a tough decision: does she intervene in the violent family dispute, or watch in silence as Zanta and Yang Qing face abuses typically borne by Tibetan widows and their children.
About the Director
Jocelyn Ford is a Beijing-based award-winning public radio journalist and filmmaker who has reported from Asia for three decades. Her audio work can be heard on Marketplace (Tokyo and Beijing bureau chief 1994-2006), Radio Lab, The World and other public radio programs. Her award-winning 2014 documentary Nowhere To Call Home: A Tibetan in Beijing has been translated into 11 languages.
Upcoming Event
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a book talk with journalist and author Leta Hong Fincher. Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the feminist movement in China against patriarchy could reconfigure the country and the rest of the world.
Leta Hong Fincher: Betraying Big Brother
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2019
Time: 4-5:30pm
Location: USC
Cost: Free, please rsvp.
USC U.S.-China Institute
213-821-4382
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