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,
Forbidden City, USA
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,