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A Jewish Girl in Shanghai
(Movie / Film)
A Kessler Film Event
A Jewish Girl in Shanghai
Written by Wu Lin, based on his graphic novel of the same title
85 minutes
A Jewish Girl in Shanghai is the first Chinese animated film to directly address the Holocaust. The film is set in Shanghai's Little Vienna - the neighborhood where around 30,000 Jewish refugees found shelter during WWII. The story centers around the friendship between Rina, a European Jewish schoolgirl and A-Gen, a Chinese pancake-seller, who teach each other about their distant worlds as Shanghai struggles beneath its own cruelly portrayed Japanese occupation. (description adapted from go2films.com)
Presented by Tracy Graves, German Literature and Culture, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages
Hsiao-Ping Wang, Chinese and East Asian Cultures, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages
Co-sponsored by the MSU Jewish Studies Program,the MSU Asian Studies Center, and the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages.
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517-884-0901
