Chinese documentaries have gained global attention in the past decade or so, thanks partly to the creative originality of young filmmakers and partly to a rapidly changing China that fascinates viewers from around the world. Wang Bing’s nine-hour epic West of the Tracks (2003), which chronicles the decline of state-owned industries in the city of Shenyang, garnered multiple
January 17, 2021
Fan Yiran was shot dead in Chicago on Jan 9, 2021.
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Tim Yang was driving with his girlfriend on a highway in Indiana when she received a text message saying a Chinese doctoral student at the University of Chicago, 30-year-old Fan Yiran, was among those killed in a shooting rampage in the city the day before.
A PhD student himself at Purdue University, about two hours drive from Chicago s South Side neighbourhood where Fan was gunned down, Yang said he was struck by the randomness of the killing. I ve driven past the garage where he was shot, there are a lot of Chinese international students living in that area, he said. It s hard to bear, it s too close to me.