Documentary filmmaker Carma Hinton, a leading chronicler of China, will present a workshop at Bates College about Western views of China’s one-child policy and the status of Chinese women at 4:10 p.m. Thursday, March 2, in the Keck Classroom (G52) in Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n
Prior to her visit, several of Hinton’s films will be shown in the Keck Classroom. Small Happiness<\/em>, focusing on the lives of women in China, and China’s Only Child<\/em> will be shown at 4:10 p.m. Monday, Feb. 28. The Dying Rooms<\/em>, about the conditions of Shanghai orphanages and Good Fortune<\/em>, about successful adoptions of Chinese infants by American families, will be shown at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 29. These, too, are open to the public and free of charge.<\/p>\n Hinton has produced and directed Hong Kong on Stage<\/em> (1997), a short film about an avant-garde theater group in Hong Kong on the eve of the 1997 transfer of sovereignty to China and The Gate of Heavenly Peace<\/em> (1995), a three-hour film about the 1989 Chinese democracy movement. She also has produced and directed Abode of Illusion<\/em> (1992), First Moon<\/em> (1991), Stilt Dancers<\/em> (1981) and One Village in China<\/em> (1987), a three-part series that includes Small Happiness<\/em>, To Taste A Hundred Herbs<\/em> and All Under Heaven<\/em>. Hinton also produced Acrobats<\/em> (1997), Chinese Environmental Film Project<\/em> (1994) and Little Plum<\/em> (1994).<\/p>\n The Boston Globe described Small Happiness<\/em>, a hit at the 1985 New Directors\/New Films festival at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as a film that “fills the screen with things that are new, illuminating, startling and rooted in humanity.” At the close of this film, Hinton narrates: “As long as a woman must leave her own family, marry into a man’s household and continue his family line, she will be considered a small happiness from the day she is born.”<\/p>\n Hinton’s films have appeared at festivals throughout the world and garnered various prizes. The Gate of Heavenly Peace<\/em> received the George Foster Peabody Award, the International Critics Prize and the Best Social and Political Documentary Award at the Banff Film Festival.<\/p>\n Hinton has lectured on China and film at MIT and Wellesley and taught Chinese language at Swarthmore. She received a bachelor’s degree in Oriental studies from the University of Pennsylvania and is a doctoral candidate in Chinese art history at Harvard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Documentary film maker Carma Hinton, a leading chronicler of China, will present a workshop at Bates College about Western views of China’s one-child policy and the status of Chinese women at 4:10 p.m. Thursday, March 2, in the Keck Classroom G52 of Pettengill Hall. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39,224],"tags":[2000,253,2979,2981,3531],"class_list":["post-20875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-society-culture","tag-carma-hinton","tag-china","tag-documentaries","tag-documentary-film","tag-filmmaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92344,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions\/92344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}