Best Documentary of the Decade
--Hawai'i International Film Festival, 1989
Decorous daughters of the East becoming streamlined glamour girls of the West who can step with the best of them. What would Confucius say?
--cringeworthy 1940s film short depicting Forbidden City dancers.
A lot of drinking. A lot of fooling around. In and out of beds.
--Larry Ching
Arthur Dong began working on this documentary in the mid-1980s. It made its debut to much acclaim in 1989 and found a wider audience through PBS's then-new, now venerable series,
American Experience. Restored in 2015 and accompanied by a far more detailed companion book of the same title, also by Dong,