Friday, January 9, 2004
9:00–11:00 a.m.
Putting China's History on the Screen: The Long Bow Group's Documentary and Digital Experiments
Mumford Room, 6th Floor, James Madison Building of the Library of Congress
| Moderator: | Jonathan D. Spence, Yale University and president-elect of the AHA.
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| Presenters: | Filmmakers Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon (of the Long Bow Group) and historian Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (Indiana University). |
Hinton and Gordon will introduce and show excerpts from their films, The Gate of Heavenly Peace, a documentary about Tiananman Square, and Morning Sun, which is about the Cultural Revolution. Wasserstrom will discuss Indiana University’s project on a multimedia encyclopedia of twentieth-century China.
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| Commentators: | Vanessa
Schwartz, University of Southern
California |
