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Guo ying dong feng nong chang = The East Wind State Farm / dao yan, Hu Jie ; DGenerate Films presents.
国营东风农场 = The East Wind State Farm 导演, 胡杰 ; DGenerate Films presents.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political prisoners.
- China.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Personal narratives.
- History.
- Political prisoners--China--Personal narratives.
- China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (1 hr. 41 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- East Wind State Farm
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] dGenerate Films, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In Mandarin with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Condemned "Rightists," sentenced to 21 years of thought reform in the countryside, share harrowing first-person accounts of life in a Chinese labor camp. In 1957, 200 teachers, students, and cadres were labeled as "Rightists" for voicing criticism of the Communist Party and sent to the East Wind State Farm in southwest China. As part of China's disastrous Great Leap Forward, these inmates were forced to take part in ill-conceived deforestation, agricultural and industrial projects that led to wide-scale famine. Later they endured the Cultural Revolution when their camp was visited by large groups of "sent-down" youth from the cities. After 21 years of "remolding," the "Rightists" were finally "rehabilitated" in 1978 and allowed to leave in 1978. THE EAST WIND STATE FARM re-examines the tragic events of Chinese modern history during the height of Maoist rule. Director Hu Jie collects dozens of extensive interviews with both inmates and staff who served through three decades of the camp's existence.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced in [2009].
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 01, 2021).
- Publisher Number:
- df-ew Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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