The Chinese Visual Festival in association with KCL Film Studies is delighted to announce details of our next free CVF Club screening, which will be the documentary 1956. A Briton in the Cool Mountains of China, on Friday 11th November at King’s College London, with a Q&A by director Katherine Swancutt (Lecturer in Anthropology of Religion, KCL).
Synopsis: following in the footsteps of Alan Winnington, a British journalist invited by the Chinese Communist Party to document the dismantling of slavery in 1956 among the Nuosu of the Cool Mountains, this film brings a team of Nuosu ethnologists, Chinese anthropology students, and a foreign anthropologist into dialogue with the descendants of former Nuosu slave-owners and slaves from Winnington’s book, The Slaves of the Cool Mountains. Winnington was a British Communist, while the Nuosu – a Tibeto-Burman group – kept slaves captured from other ethnic groups. The film documents local perceptions of sixty years of change, after slavery and the advent of ‘development’.
More information on the documentary can be found here.
FREE ENTRY. All welcome and there is no registration required.