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202013 minGdoc-short

Inauguration

202013 minGdoc-short

Thirteen minutes examine the fragmented history of the Young China Association, focusing on a failed assassination and an impossible trip.

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Thirteen minutes examine the fragmented history of the Young China Association, focusing on a failed assassination and an impossible trip.

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Peng Zuqiangdirector

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Fragments of the Young China Association's history emerge through a failed assassination and an impossible trip. Set against the backdrop of early overseas Chinese revolutionary politics, the film reveals processes of erasure and remembrance. Events and movements scatter across memories and locations, treated as remnants of a larger narrative. The documentary questions what it means for a story to exist when its premise is the certainty of its own erasure.

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