by Sandra Brennan
synopsis
This documentary offers a sweeping look at China's recent past and its future as the great country prepares to enter the 21st century. The filmmaker Peter Kauffman explains that the reason he made the film was due to an excited phone call from Xiozhen Jiang, his longtime friend and daughter of renowned Chinese screen actress Bai Yang. During the call she told Kauffman that China had turned into "the wildest place on Earth." Intrigued, Kaufman and his father, distinguished filmmaker Philip Kaufman, journeyed to China and made this film, which is divided into titled segments.
characteristics
- Prostitute/prostitution
- Problems
- Political-power
- Mob
- Protester
- Social-change
- Yakuza
- Whore
- Troubles
- Streetwalker
- Massacre
- Mafia
- Courtesan
- Corruption
- China
