Wu Wenguang is independent Chinese documentary's great survivor. His immediate contemporaries from the 1990s have largely moved into television production, while younger directors committed to filmmaking outside the state media system increasingly find themselves forced to move outside mainland China to survive. But Wu is still working in a distinctly non-commercial manner, and remains based in Beijing. Since 2010, his focus has been a large-scale, participatory filmmaking exercise dedicated to uncovering and recording experiences of China's Great Famine (1958-1961). This venture is known colloquially as the Memory Project, and it lies at the heart of this edited collection.
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