Bing Ai

China’s epically intimate (or is it intimately epic?) documentary movement finds a major new exponent in Feng Yan, whose documentary chronicles the labour, loves and indomitable willpower of Zhang Bing Ai, a Chinese peasant woman who dares to defy the state.

Bing Ai, her husband and two children harvest oranges on the banks of the Yangtze River. Their misfortune is to be located in the fl [...]

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