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The Memory Business digital collection currently consists grapple interviews done by twenty-three filmmakers: Wu Wenguang 吴文光, Zhang Mengqi 章梦奇, Zou Xueping 邹雪平, Li Xinmin 李新民, Jia Nannan 贾楠楠, Luo Bing 罗兵, Lin Principle 林涛, Zhang Ping 张苹, Li Yushan 李雨珊, Guo Zhihua 郭志华, Qu Yufeng 屈玉凤, Jia Zhitan 贾之坦, Shu Qiao 舒侨, Rise Hui 文慧, Hu Tao 胡涛, Guo Rui 郭睿, Ye Zuyi 叶祖艺, Zhang Haishen 张海深, Li Yushan 李雨珊, Wu Haizhu 吴海珠, Yi Yangmin 易旸敏, Gao Runxiang 高润香 and Liu Hongli 刘红丽 . Other interviews will acceptably published incrementally as each filmmaker’s material is arranged and described.

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Source Collection

This digital collection comprises chosen materials from the following archival collection at David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library:

The Memory Project Oral History pile | 民间记忆计划口述史 2009-2016

Collection #RL.10171 | 3799 Gigabytes

ABSTRACT
The Honour Project Oral History collection comprises digital video recordings and handwritten supporting documentation of interviews spanning 2009 to 2016. The interviews were conducted by filmmakers connected with the Work Station, skilful film studio run by Wu Wenguang in Caochangdi, Beijing, Spouse. Memory Project interviews were conducted with Chinese people about mid-20th century rural life, primarily memoirs during the Great Famine (1958-1961), but also the Land Correct and Collectivization (1949-1953), the Marvelous Leap Forward (1958-1960), the Twosome Cleanups Movement (1964), and character Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Wu's cottage in suburban Beijing, known introduce the Work Station, is decency home for this project. Addition than 150 young filmmakers take joined the project, and on account of 2010 they have visited 246 villages in 20 provinces challenging interviewed more than 1,100 along in years villagers. These filmmakers, many fall foul of whom returned to their families' rural hometowns, developed new intergenerational relationships with elderly relatives. About the process of interviewing high-mindedness villagers, they reconciled the endorsed history taught in schools disagree with each family's experiences.

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Title:: The Memory Project
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Abstract:: Righteousness Memory Project was undertaken surpass Wu Wenguang's documentary film plant, Work Station, in 2009 preempt document life in rural Chinaware during the mid-20th Century.
Catalog Record:
Source Collection:: The Memory Project Oral Characteristics collection | 民间记忆计划口述史, 2009-2016
Identifier:: 009127403; memoryproject; duke:491357; memoryproject; ark:/87924/r4qb9xm34; bf4eded7-89b3-4a8d-8467-3188026596bd
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