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Val Wang "Beijing Bastard"
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November 12, 2014
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42:19Now PlayingNearly fifty years after her parents fled Communist China, Wang, in an act of adolescent rebellion, left the American suburbs for Beijing. If her relatives hewed a traditional line, the rest of the city did not, and Wang plunged into China’s transformation, not just observing the rise of skyscrapers and the blossoming of an artistic avant-garde, but participating as a documentary filmmaker and writer.
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