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New Citizen's Trial

Ai Xiaoming

Release year: 2014

Run time: 57 mins

Film type: Documentary

Synopsis

Interwoven with interviews featuring defense lawyer Zhang Qingfang, as well as scholars Guo Yuhua and entrepreneur Wang Ying, this film showcases the inquiries posed by citizens regarding the trial and their interpretations of the emerging civic movement.

 

Director biography

A feminist professor at Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, the Director of the Comparative Literature Section in the Department of Chinese, and the Program Leader of the Sex/Gender Education Forum. She has also worked as a translator and director for the Chinese version of the performance 'The Vagina Monologues.' Additionally, she has collaborated with Hu Jie on documentaries such as 'Taishi Village,' 'Painting for the Revolution - Peasant Paintings from Hu County, China,' 'White Rainbow,' and 'The Vagina Monologues: Stories from China.' The latter was selected for the Women’s Film Festival organized by City University of New York as a side event of the United Nations' 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.