[378] Sunday Night Chinese Cinema Offered By Confucius Institute

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 22, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

SUNDAY NIGHT CHINESE CINEMA OFFERED BY CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE
Movies at MTSU Offered to Promote Greater Understanding of Chinese Culture

(MURFREESBORO) – The Confucius Institute and the Office of the Dean of the College of Mass Communication at MTSU will present a Chinese Film Festival on Sunday nights from March 28 to April 18 in Room 103 of the John Bragg Mass Communication Building.
Each movie will begin promptly at 6 p.m. Following each movie, Liu Xiao, a master’s degree candidate in the College of Mass Communication, will facilitate a question-and-answer session. All movies in the series have English subtitles and are free and open to the public.
The first film, slated for viewing on March 28, is “Rickshaw Boy” (1982), the first film from the People’s Republic of China to open in an American theater. It’s the tale of the ugliness of a city run by dueling warlords where many of the poor turn against each other for survival. Other films scheduled to be presented include “Eat Drink Man Woman” (1994) on April 4; “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” (2002) on April 11; and “Getting Home” (2007) on April 18. Founded in 2004, the Confucius Institute is a nonprofit organization established to strengthen educational cooperation between China and other countries. MTSU administrators and officials of the university’s partner school, Hangzhou Normal University, held a ceremonial signing ceremony Dec. 1 in observance of their joint management of the institute.
For more information, call the Confucius Institute at 615-494-8696 or Dr. Bob Spires at 615-898-2217.

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