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245 00 Made in China.
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|c2015.
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500 Title from title frames.
518 Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2007.
520 Made in China tells one of the millions of stories of
migrants from rural China who comprise the backbone of the
Chinese economic miracle. It provides a human face behind
the ubiquitous label "Made in China." This massive
dislocation of people may well represent the largest, most
rapid migration in human history. The film demonstrates
how one generation of Chinese is experiencing the culture
shock of an Industrial Revolution which took centuries in
the West. It is inevitably both an elegy for a lost way of
life and a grassroots view of what could become the most
powerful economic power on earth. Made in China follows
the lives of a typical migrant couple, Heqing and Heping
Fan, including their first trip home after two years in
the city. They both work in the Cixi Industrial Zone, a
manufacturing center with over 1,000,000 workers, mostly
former peasants, south of Shanghai, in a plant making
bathroom products for export. They work seven days a week,
twelve hours a day for approximately $.45 an hour or about
$250 a month. Each month they save about $150 dollars to
send back to their village. The factory owner feels he is
doing his workers a service; rural China is overpopulated
and industrialization is the only answer for surplus
peasants. The Fans left the country, reluctantly, because
of the depression facing Chinese agriculture. They once
made $3000 a year from their orchards, but falling
commodity prices, exacerbated by an overvalued yuan,
forced the Fans to try new ventures to make a living. All
attempts failed, leaving them deeply in debt to their
neighbors, feeling overwhelming shame. Given the fact that
the money economy has become more expensive, a single
hospitalization cost Heqing $1500 dollars, or half a years
salary. Even more prosperous peasants are leaving the
village because factory work provides a low but reliable
wage. This year the Fans decide to return home for a four
day visit during the Chinese New Year celebrations. They
have left their two young children with their grandparents
for over two years and strains are developing in their
relationship. One unexamined cost of China's rapid
industrialization is its impact on a whole generation of
children who are in effect orphaned. The reunion is
bittersweet and emotional; the young daughter will not
sleep or let her mother out of her sight because she is so
afraid she will leave. And soon the Fans do leave with the
expectation of not returning home for three more years.
Eventually the force stage behind this unprecedented
industrial revolution emerges: the Chinese Communist
Party. In the village, Heqing and a group of friends and
local Party officials sing a drunken version of the
"Internationale" and toast the Party and its recent
reforms for China's growing prosperity. Back at the
factory, we watch the Fans participating in a study group
where they learn the 8 Virtues and Vices of a worker, in
essence, to place the interest of the community before
your own and to see the interest of the boss as the same
as yourr own. Yet the motivation for everyone is personal
survival and private advancement. The Fans' greatest hope
for their children is that they receive an education so
they will not succumb to the fate of factory workers or
peasantry, but can instead join China's new, prosperous,
professional elite. The cognitive dissonance between
official socialist ideology and the harsh but dynamic
realities of capitalist growth is not the least part of
the Chinese economic miracle. As the film ends, the owner
of the Fan's plant proudly surveys the site for his new
next expansion: farm lands requisitioned by the state,
whose displaced peasants apprehensively face an uncertain
future like the Fans. "In a profoundly moving way, this
beautifully photographed film captures the rhythms of work
and home life in one of China's new factory towns and an
ancient village, and the links between them. It shows the
exceptionally demanding physical as well as emotional
labor behind China's economic miracle. Made in China
simultaneously stimulates your mind and your heart." -
Thomas Gold, Professor, Department of Sociology, UC
Berkeley. "Made in China opens a window into the difficult
lives and many sacrifices of the migrant laborers who are
powering that country's economic boom as well as conveying
the pain and heartbreak of the children they often have to
leave behind back in the villages." - Martin K. Whyte,
Professor of Sociology & Chinese Studies, Harvard
University. "While Made in China reveals much about the
hardships that the migrants encounter, it also contains
striking vignettes of China's mixed political climate in
which themes of past and present are intertwined. It is a
film well worth seeing." - Thomas Bernstein, Professor
emeritus, Columbia University. "Made in China is an
unusual story telling. It follows a peasant family that
experienced new opportunities, failure, migration and
separation in the process of China's rapid
industrialization in the past three decades. This film
moves beyond China's aggregate statistics of growth and
focuses on individual lives that are extremely dependent
on, but can not be settled solely by monetary gains at the
time of great transformation." - You-tien Hsing, Professor,
Department of Geography, UC Berkeley.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
650 0 Economic history|xSocial conditions|y2000-2007|zChina.
650 0 Industrialization|zChina|xGlobalization.
650 0 Working poor|zChina|xBiography.
655 7 Documentary films.|2lcgft
700 1 Cauchard, Jean-Yves,|efilm director.
710 2 Kanopy (Firm)
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