Related Films | Week 5

Check out these related films available in the Reed film and video library!

Half The Sky, 28 min, 1997
Short documentary on women in the contemporary PRC.

Through Chinese women's eyes, 53 min., 1997.
Presents the transformations in the lives of Chinese women over the 20th century. Documents the attempts to erase gender differences under Mao, today's changing ideas of femininity, and the crystalization of Chinese feminism at the UN Women's conference in Beijing. By anthropologist Mayfair Yang.

Hsiao hsi (Small Happiness): Women of a Chinese Village, 58 min, 1990.
An acclaimed documentary, part of a series of three on this village, which examines the social conditions for Chinese women today and in the past, with specific focus on the village of Long Bow. Inhabitants reveal the strides that have been made for women's equality, despite the seeming oppression when observed from a Western viewpoint. Carma Hinton, the American director, grew up in China and participated in the Cultural Revolution as a Red Guard. Chinese is her native language.

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