Pixin, Weng
Summary: "Let's Not Talk Anymore weaves together five generations of women from Weng Pixin's family, each at age 15. Her lineage is full of breakages -- her great grandmother Kuān is sent away from her family in South China, her grandmother Mèi is adopted by a neighbor to help with housework, and her mother Bīng is heartbroken by her father's estrangement. Pixin's own story centers on her feelings of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 PIXSummary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOUSummary: Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARTang, Belinda Huijuan
Summary: Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family's rural village in China. Though they have been estranged for years, Yitian promises to come home. When Yitian attempts to piece together what may have happened, he struggles to navigate China's impenetrable bureaucracy as an outsider, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022