The Golden Wing on Taiwan: A Visualization of Lin Yueh-hwa's Study of Chinese Familism (1940s) in Pearl Mountain Village, Taiwan (1970s)

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