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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2016/03/07/films-about-migrants-in-guangdong-1-9%ef%bc%89/" target="_blank">Films about migrants in Guangdong (1-9）</a></h3>
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<p class="p1">Thanks to all who responded to my query. FYI, below find a sampling of the responses.--Kirk</p>
<p class="p1">There are two films might be of your student's interest: Zhang Liang's <em>Working Girls in Special Economic Zone</em> (特区打工妹, 1990) and Tang Xiaobai's <em>Perfect Life</em> (完美生活, 2008).</p>
<p class="p1">Fanghao Chen <<span class="s1"><span class="s2"><a href="mailto:fanghaochen@wustl.edu">fanghaochen@wustl.edu</a>></span></span></p>
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<p class="p1">Maybe your student is only interested in fictional films, but if he or she is also consulting documentaries, Lixin Fan's <em>Last Train Home</em> is a must-see. The family Fan focused on had roots in Sichuan and worked in Guangzhou.</p>
<p class="p1">Andrew Clark A<<a href="mailto:aec@raggedbanner.com">aec@raggedbanner.com</a>></p>
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<p class="p1">Does Fruit Chan's<em> Durian Durian</em> fit the bill?</p>
<p class="p1">nick kaldis <<a href="mailto:nkaldis@gmail.com">nkaldis@gmail.com</a>></p>
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<p class="p1"><em>A Touch of Sin</em> (天注定) has at least one section about this, if memory serves.</p>
<p class="p1">Andrea Lingenfelter <<a href="mailto:ondi@speakeasy.org">ondi@speakeasy.org</a>></p>
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<p class="p1">The feature length documentaries <em>Chinese Verses</em> (我的诗篇) and <em>Cotton</em> (棉花) include migrant workers in Guangzhou. The parents in <em>Last Train Home</em> also work in in Guangzhou.</p>
<p class="p1">Rowan Parry <<a href="mailto:R.E.Parry@uva.nl">R.E.Parry@uva.nl</a>></p>
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<p class="p1">A few films to be considered:</p>
<p class="p1">Jia Zhangke's <i>A Touch of Sin</i> (2013). The last chapter of the film focuses on migrant workers in Guangzhou.</p>
<p class="p1">Lixin Fan's documentary feature film <i>Last Train Home</i> (2009). It follows a migrant family working in Guangzhou.</p>
<p class="p1">Zhang Yang's <i>Getting Home</i> (2007). This film may be a bit tangential to the theme; it's about migrant workers' journey from Shenzhen back to Yunnan province.</p>
<p class="p1">Yanjie Wang <<a href="mailto:ywang15@lmu.edu"><span class="s1"><a href="mailto:ywang15@lmu.edu">ywang15@lmu.edu</a></span></a>></p>
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<p class="p1">The fourth episode of Jia Zhangke's 2013 film <em>A Touch of Sin</em> (天注定) is about migrant workers in Guangdong - it is loosely based on the Foxconn suicides. Not a feature film, but a documentary: <em>Last Train Home</em> (归途列车) by Lixin Fan (2009), which is about migrant workers originally from Sichuan.</p>
<p class="p1">Then there is the comedy/drama <em>Getting Home</em> (落叶归根) by Zhang Yang (2007), which has Shenzhen as its starting point. The migrant worker's hometown in this case is Chongqing.</p>
<p class="p1">Best regards,</p>
<p class="p1">Anne Keijser <<a href="mailto:A.S.Keijser@hum.leidenuniv.nl">A.S.Keijser@hum.leidenuniv.nl</a>></p>
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<p class="p1">The most popular TV series on migrant workers in Guangdong is 外来妹 (1991).</p>
<p class="p1">A feature film 特区打工妹 got the best feature film award in 1990. It is about migrant girls working in Shenzhen, the special economic zone. Another feature film 我的美丽乡愁 (Far from home) won the 2003 Golden Rooster award.</p>
<p class="p1">所有梦想都开花 (City of Dream，2009）is a more recent one, highly promoted by the Guangdong government. See more on <a href="https://movie.douban.com/subject/3557515/"><span class="s1"><a href="https://movie.douban.com/subject/3557515/" rel="nofollow">https://movie.douban.com/subject/3557515/</a></span></a></p>
<p class="p1">The fourth story in Jia Zhangke's <em>A Touch of Sin</em> (2013) is also about migrant workers in Guangdong. it is based on Foxconn suicides.</p>
<p class="p1"><em>China Blue</em>, a 2005 documentary film, also records the young girls life in Dongguan, Guangdong.</p>
<p class="p1">Good luck with the research.</p>
<p class="p1">Hongmei <<a href="mailto:yuho01@luther.edu">yuho01@luther.edu</a>></p>
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<p class="p1">I'm thinking of Chen Kexin's film 親愛的. Though it is a film about child trafficking, the story was set in Shenzhen, focusing on children of migrant workers, who are extremely vulnerable to such tragedies.</p>
<p class="p1">Hope it helps.</p>
<p class="p1">Lin Jiao <<a href="mailto:lin_jiao@soas.ac.uk">lin_jiao@soas.ac.uk</a>></p>
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