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My Life in China

My Life in China

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 9, 2014

Runtime

1h 21m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

90%

Original Title

我的中國生活

Director

Kenneth Eng

Description

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for a better life. How did they hold onto their identity? How did they adapt to their new life? Every family has a special story. In my case, it's my Chinese-American story. My father would always tell us his story about walking for 7 days and 6 nights, before swimming for 4 hours to Macau to escape communism in 1966. His story would fall on my deaf ears until I returned to China with him.