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SUMMARY:Film Screen: LAST TRAIN HOME
DESCRIPTION:
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 	Tuesday, April 26\n
 	7:00pm\n
 	Room 109, South 
 Kedzie Hall\n
 	MSU\n
 	Panel discussion following 
 film screening\n
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 	Wednesday & Thursday, 
 April 27 & 28\n
 	7:30pm\n
 	EL Hannah 
 Community Center\n
 	819 Abbot Road, EL\n
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 	Friday & Saturday, April 29 & 
 30\n
 	7pm & 9pm\n
 	South Kedzie Hall, 
 Room 107\n
 	(corner of Farm Lane and Auditorium 
 Road, MSU)\n
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 	Tickets: $7, $5 for seniors 
 (65+), $3 for students\n
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 	FILM DESCRIPTION\n
 	Every 
 spring, China's cities are plunged 
 into chaos, as all at once, a tidal wave of humanity 
 attempts to return home by train. It 
 is the Chinese New Year. The wave is made up 
 of millions of migrant factory workers. The homes 
 they seek are the rural villages and families 
 they left behind to seek work in the booming 
 coastal cities. It is an epic spectacle 
 that tells us much about China, a country discarding 
 traditional ways as it hurtles towards 
 modernity and global economic dominance.\n
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 	Last Train Home, an emotionally engaging and 
 visually beautiful debut film from Chinese-Canadian 
 director Lixin Fan, draws us into the 
 fractured lives of a single migrant family 
 caught up in this desperate annual migration. 
 Sixteen years ago, the Zhangs abandoned their 
 young children to find work in the city, consoled 
 by the hope that their wages would lift 
 their children into a better life. But in 
 a bitter irony, the Zhangs' hopes for the future 
 are undone by their very absence. Qin, the 
 child they left behind, has grown into adolescence 
 crippled by a sense of abandonment. In 
 an act of teenage rebellion, she drops out 
 of school. She too will become a migrant worker. 
 The decision is a heartbreaking blow for 
 the parents.\n
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 	In classic cinema verité 
 style, Last Train Home follows the Zhangs' 
 attempts to change their daughter's course 
 and repair their ruptured family. Intimate 
 and candid, the film paints a human portrait 
 of the dramatic changes sweeping China. We 
 identify with the Zhangs as they navigate through 
 the stark and difficult choices of a society 
 caught between old ways and new realities. 
 Can they get ahead and still undo some of 
 the damage that has been done to their family?\n
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 	Sponsored 
 by MSU Asian Studies Center, 
 Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives and the MSU School 
 of Human Resources and Labor Relations.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Asian Studies Center\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://asianstudies.msu.edu/\n
LOCATION:See description
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