AMES 511/DOCST 511/ICS 513: Documentary and East Asian Cultures

Duke library has a sizeable collection of independent documentary films from China. They can be found through the streaming video databases like Docuseek. Some selected films:

• West of the tracks = 鐵西區 by Wang Bing in 2003
• Before the flood by Li Yifan and Yu Yan in 2005
• Meishi Street by by Ou Ning and Cao Fei in 2006
• Dong by Jia Zhangke in 2006
• Up the Yangtze by Chang Yung in 2007
• Queer China, Comrade China by Cui Zi'en in 2008
• Last train home by Lixin Fan in 2009
• 膠帶 = Tape by Li Ning in 2010
• A Clear Sky by Harhuu in 2012
• Three Sisters by Wang Bing in 2012
• The Questioning by Zhu Rikun in 2013
• When the bough breaks by Ji Dan in 2013
• Though I am gone by Hu Jie in 2015
• The Chinese mayor by Zhou Hao in 2015
• Under the dome by Chai Jing in 2015
• 大路朝天 = The road by Zhang Zanbo in 2015
• Plastic China by Wang Jiuliang in 2016
• We the workers by Wen Hai in 2017
• Spark by Hu Jie in 2019

A good amount of these Chinese documentary films are housed at Lilly library in DVD format, see some examples below: 

• 持攝影機的男人 = Man with a camera by Liu Na'ou originally in 1933
• Bumming in Beijng : the last dreamers by Wu Wenguang in 1990
• 老頭 = Old men by Yang Tianyi in 1999
• 鐵路沿線 = Along the railway by Du Haibing in 2001
• 冬日 = The sun in winter by Zhao Gang in 2002
• 厚街 = Houjie township by Zhou Hao in 2002
• 拎起大舌頭 = The secret of my success by Duan Jinchuan in 2002
• 平安米; 搬屋 = Rice distribution; moving by Zhang Hong in 2003
• 尋找林昭的靈魂 = In search of Lin Zhao's soul by Hu Jie in 2004
• 男人 = The man by Hu Xinyu in 2004
• 德拉姆 = Delamu by Tian Zhuangzhuang in 2004
• 排骨 =  Amateur Image by Liu Gaoming in 2006
• 算命 = Fortune teller by Xu Tong in 2010