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Premiered March 27, 2023. Directed by. Violet Du Feng and Zhao Qing. Modern women in China keep alive the tradition of Nüshu, a secret written language. Watch with PBS Passport 1:25:27 Preview....
- One Child Nation
Premiered March 30, 2020. Directed by. Nanfu Wang and...
- Leftover Women
Premiered February 10, 2020. Directed by. Shosh Shlam and...
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Modern women in China keep alive the tradition of Nüshu, a...
- One Child Nation
- What Is Nüshu?
- How Did youlearn About Nüshu?
- In China Today, How Is Feminism viewed?
- What Brought You to Your Main Participants, Hu Xin and Wu simu?
- Could You Talk More About The Battle to Modernize and Commercialize Nüshu?
- What Kind of Impact Can Films Like This Have Back in China?
Violet Du Feng: For centuries leading up to the Communist Revolution in 1949, Chinese women following the “Three Obediences”—to obey fathers in childhood, husbands in marriage, and sons in widowhood—succumbed to the oppression of patriarchy. Foot binding was prevalent, women were often relegated to private domestic settings, away from the public ga...
Violet: In 2005 I read about Lisa See’s critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. The book, based on a female friendship forged through Nüshu, has sold 1.5 million copies and was later made into a movie directed by Wayne Wang. I was so amazed about the existence of Nüshu, which most Chinese, including me,...
Violet: When I started the project in 2017, the regression of women’s rights in China was still a political taboo. The English “#MeToo” hashtag only had a fleeting moment in China before the online censors swooped in to block it. Even the word “feminism” was largely denounced. But every time I had conversations with female friends and relatives, or...
Violet: I met Hu Xin during my first scouting trip to the village next to where the government built the Nüshu Museum [where] Hu Xin is a museum tour guide. At first, she presented herself more as a government spokesperson, promoting Nüshu to the press and at events, but I later found out she’d been struggling for years to conceive a boy to satisfy...
Violet: The co-option and commercialization of Nüshu is one of the film’s themes, revealed in several scenes where men are engaged in various marketing schemes. It feels like “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” The first time I went [on a scouting trip] I instantly felt there was something strange about it, because all these men ...
My previous film, Please Remember Me, is about Alzheimer’s [as seen in] an elderly couple who actually is my great aunt and her husband, and we told a beautiful love story between them. [It] actually created policy change. We could have gone with the approach that the elder care system in China is really messed up. It is. But there would be no way ...
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Mar 24, 2023 · Emmy® Award-winning documentarian Violet Du Feng (“Harbor from the Holocaust,” “Confucian Dream,” “Maineland,” “Please Remember Me”) began working on “Hidden Letters” to start a conversation...
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