Date:
Friday, December 1, 2006.
4:15 PM.<BR/>
Location: Building 200 - Room 205, Main Quadrangle<BR/><BR/>
<p><font size="h3"><i>CEAS Special Lecture & Film Screening</font></i></p>
<p><font color="8B0000" size="h4"></p>
<p>CARMA HINTON "House, Home, and Family: Traditional Village Culture and its Fate Through Revolution and Reform"</font></p>
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<p>Carma Hinton will present three films about the vernacular architecture of Anhui province and the rituals and customs related to family and clan. She will discuss issues of destruction, transformation, survival and revival of traditional culture.</p>
<p><font color="8B0000" size="h4">Yin Yu Tang:</font> A Chinese Home (17 min.)- how a 200-year old house was moved from a Chinese village and re-assembled for the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.</p>
<p><font color="8B0000" size="h4">"Can't wait to tear this old house down!"</font>(17 min.) - a work-in-progress showing arguments between old and young people over whether old houses should be torn down.</p>
<p><font color="8B0000" size="h4">Guomen (16 min.)</font> - scenes from a contemporary village wedding intercut with interviews of a 96-year old woman reminiscing about her wedding day. The remarkable similarities of the two weddings highlight the ongoing struggles of rural women.</p>
<p><i><b>Carma Hinton</b> was born in Beijing in 1949 and raised and educated there until 1971. The Morning Sun project has been deeply influenced by Hinton's personal and first-hand understanding of the politics and history of the period, and her direct witness of and participation in many of the events of the Cultural Revolution, which began when she was sixteen years old. All interviews were conducted by Hinton in Chinese.</p>
<p>She has produced and directed 13 documentary films about China, including many award-winning pioneering works, from her early ethnographic works, such as "Stilt Dancers" and "Small Happiness," to important historical examinations, such as "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" and "Morning Sun."</p>
<p>Hinton has a PhD in art history from Harvard University and has held teaching positions at Swarthmore College, Wellesley College, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, she has lectured widely on Chinese culture, history and film at educational institutions in the United States and around the world.</p>
<p>Awards she has received include two George Foster Peabody Awards, the American Historical Association's John E. O'Connor Film Award, the International Critics Prize and the Best Social and Political Documentary at the Banff Television Festival, as well as nominations for Best Documentary Feature by the National Film Board of Canada, the ABCNEWS VideoSource and Pare Lorentz Awards by the International Documentary Association, and a National News and Documentary Emmy Award.</i></p><BR/>
Friday, December 1, 2006.
4:15 PM.<BR/>
Location: Building 200 - Room 205, Main Quadrangle<BR/><BR/>
<p><font size="h3"><i>CEAS Special Lecture & Film Screening</font></i></p>
<p><font color="8B0000" size="h4"></p>
<p>CARMA HINTON "House, Home, and Family: Traditional Village Culture and its Fate Through Revolution and Reform"</font></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Carma Hinton will present three films about the vernacular architecture of Anhui province and the rituals and customs related to family and clan. She will discuss issues of destruction, transformation, survival and revival of traditional culture.</p>
<p><font color="8B0000" size="h4">Yin Yu Tang:</font> A Chinese Home (17 min.)- how a 200-year old house was moved from a Chinese village and re-assembled for the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.</p>
<p><font color="8B0000" size="h4">"Can't wait to tear this old house down!"</font>(17 min.) - a work-in-progress showing arguments between old and young people over whether old houses should be torn down.</p>
<p><font color="8B0000" size="h4">Guomen (16 min.)</font> - scenes from a contemporary village wedding intercut with interviews of a 96-year old woman reminiscing about her wedding day. The remarkable similarities of the two weddings highlight the ongoing struggles of rural women.</p>
<p><i><b>Carma Hinton</b> was born in Beijing in 1949 and raised and educated there until 1971. The Morning Sun project has been deeply influenced by Hinton's personal and first-hand understanding of the politics and history of the period, and her direct witness of and participation in many of the events of the Cultural Revolution, which began when she was sixteen years old. All interviews were conducted by Hinton in Chinese.</p>
<p>She has produced and directed 13 documentary films about China, including many award-winning pioneering works, from her early ethnographic works, such as "Stilt Dancers" and "Small Happiness," to important historical examinations, such as "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" and "Morning Sun."</p>
<p>Hinton has a PhD in art history from Harvard University and has held teaching positions at Swarthmore College, Wellesley College, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, she has lectured widely on Chinese culture, history and film at educational institutions in the United States and around the world.</p>
<p>Awards she has received include two George Foster Peabody Awards, the American Historical Association's John E. O'Connor Film Award, the International Critics Prize and the Best Social and Political Documentary at the Banff Television Festival, as well as nominations for Best Documentary Feature by the National Film Board of Canada, the ABCNEWS VideoSource and Pare Lorentz Awards by the International Documentary Association, and a National News and Documentary Emmy Award.</i></p><BR/>