Film Screening:

The Land of Many Palaces
(Adam James Smith and Song Ting, 2014, 61 min, China/UK, in Mandarin w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital)

-- Introduced by Yueran Zhang '15
-- Q&A to follow with the film's director, Adam James Smith!

In Ordos, China, thousands of farmers are being relocated into a new city under a government plan to modernize the region. The Land of Many Palaces follows a government official whose job is to convince these farmers that their lives will be better off in the city, and to help them adapt to urban life, and a farmer in one of the last remaining villages in the region who is pressured to move. The film explores a process that will take shape on an enormous scale across China, since the central government announced plans to relocate 250,000,000 farmers to cities across the nation, over the next 20 years.

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Sponsors: The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)