Hooligan Sparrow (2016)
A portrait of women's rights activist Ye Hainan, detailing her struggles with the Chinese authorities.
In The Same Breath (2021)
How did the Chinese government turn pandemic cover-ups in Wuhan into a triumph for the Communist party? An essential narrative of first-hand accounts of the coronavirus, and a revelatory examination of how propaganda and patriotism shaped the outbreak’s course – both in China and in the US.
One Child Nation (2019)
After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
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