Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/02/2015
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
5th Ave Cinema
510 SW Hall St. --Portland
Film Screening and Q & A with the director of “The Land of Many Palaces” (US/China 2014)
A new documentary film co-directed by Adam James Smith and Song Ting.
Exploring China’s ambitious modernization & urbanization drive, this film focuses on the development of a new city in Ordos, Inner Mongolia in China, where farmers are currently being relocated. The Land of Many Palaces follows a government official whose job is to convince farmers that a better life awaits them in the city, and a farmer in one of the last remaining villages in the region who is pressured to move.
Free & Open to the Public
Sponsored by the PSU Institute for Asian Studies and the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning.
Contact:
Web: www.pdx.edu/asian-studies
Tel: 503.725.8576
Email: asianstudies@pdx.edu