The Golden Wing on Taiwan: A Visualization of Lin Yueh-hwa's Study of Chinese Familism (1940s) in Pearl Mountain Village, Taiwan (1970s)
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Directed by Gary Seaman. Produced by Joe Juanyao Zheng. 2019. United States. 35 minutes. Country/region featured: Fujian, China & Taiwan, China In-person Q&A with Joe Juanyao Zheng. Lin Yueh-hwa’s autobiographical “novel” about his native village The Golden Wing: A Sociological Study of Chinese Familism (1948) is now considered a classic ethnographic account of precommunist China. In the 1970s Gary Seaman made a series of ethnographic films featuring village life in a Taiwanese village. This film merges images from Taiwan with verbal ethnographic description from Fujian to provide students with a multimodal integration of visual and written ethnography of Chinese social life. Distributed by the filmmaker Contact: seaman@usc.edu; juanyaoz@usc.edu