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Letters From Home
Directed by Colleen Leung
A National Film Board of Canada Production
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This personal documentary chronicles the journey of filmmaker Colleen Leung as she delves into a startling family secret. Her grandfather, a Chinese immigrant who became a successful businessman and raised a large family, was also a husband and father to a second family in China. He supported his overseas wife and children his entire life, but kept them a secret from his grandchildren.

Shocked to discover the existence of this family of strangers, Leung travels to China to unravel the even more astonishing story. Photographs, letters and poignant memories of relatives on both sides of the ocean illuminate the economic and political circumstances surrounding a man with two wives living a continent apart.

Against the historical backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution and Canada's Exclusion Act, Leung's extraordinary personal journey is also a rich exploration of heritage, family and the meaning of home.

2005 National Women's Studies Association Film Festival
2003 Association for Asian Studies Film Festival
2002 Columbus Film Festival
  

45 minutes / color
Closed Captioned
Release Date: 2002
Copyright Date: 2001
Sale: $345

Subject areas:
Asia, Canadian Studies, Closed Captioned, East Asia, Family Relations, History (World), Multi-Cultural Studies, Psychology, Sociology

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