{"id":10303,"date":"2018-01-02T15:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T19:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2025-01-30T15:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T20:52:50","slug":"xu-xing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2018\/01\/02\/xu-xing\/","title":{"rendered":"XU Xing: In Residence at BU"},"content":{"rendered":"

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XU\u00a0Xing: In Residence at BU<\/span><\/h4>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>BU Center for the Study of Asia\u00a0and the BU Arts Initiative are please to welcome Chinese documentary filmmaker\u00a0XU Xing \u5f90\u661f to BU for a three month residency. Please join us for the following public programs:<\/span><\/p>\n


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\"Xu<\/p>\n

Open Studio<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>
\nChat with Xu Xing about filmmaking, camera work, storytelling, &\u00a0more<\/em>
\nMonday,\u00a0March 26 at 4:30-6 p.m.<\/span>
\nBoston University School of Theology<\/a>, STH Room 636 (745 Commonwealth Ave.)
\n<\/span>Free & Open to BU Students \u2013 no RSVP required.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Screening\u00a0& discussion: Xu Xing\u2019s documentary film\u00a0<\/span>Summary of Crimes\u00a0<\/em>\u7f6a\u8bc1\u6458\u8981<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(2013)<\/strong>
\nThursday, March 29th at 7 p.m.<\/span>
\nJacob Sleeper Auditorium <\/a>(College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Ave.)<\/span>
\nFree and open to the public, but you must\u00a0RSVP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Much of what we know about China\u2019s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) concerns the experience of officials and intellectuals. Our understanding of these \u201cten years of turmoil,\u201d which erupted more than fifty years ago, is therefore urban, with a focus on the China\u2019s political and cultural elites. In his film \u201cSummary of Crimes,\u201d director Xu Xing tackles the question of what happened in the countryside and at the grassroots, in interviews with a group of peasants convicted as counterrevolutionaries during the Cultural Revolution. For many years these peasants had no way of articulating their past sufferings, nor did society at large have any way of accessing the way the Cultural Revolution marked their life courses.
\n\u201cSummary of Crimes\u201d runs 132 minutes in Chinese with English subtitles.<\/em><\/p>\n

Other Boston-Area Events:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Struggle Between Private Memory and the State’s Master Narrative of the Past<\/span><\/strong>
\nWednesday, April 4 from 4:30-6 p.m.<\/span>
\nHarvard Ed Portal at Harvard University, 224 Western Avenue, <\/a>Allston, MA 02134<\/span>
\nView and discuss Xu Xing’s film,\u00a0A Chronicle of My Cultural Revolution\u00a0<\/em>\u6211\u7684\u6587\u9769\u7f16\u5e74\u53f2\u00a0<\/em>(2009)<\/p>\n

Giving Voice to the Powerless Against the Silence of the Official Narrative<\/span><\/strong>
\nFriday,\u00a0April 20 at 6:30 p.m.<\/span>
\nPao Arts Center \u5305\u6c0f\u6587\u85dd\u4e2d\u5fc3, 99 Albany Street<\/a>, Boston MA 02111<\/span>
\nView Xu Xing’s film,\u00a0The Day of Reckoning\u00a0<\/em>\u814a\u6708\u4e09\u5341\u65e5\u5230\u6765<\/span> (2017)<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\"XU<\/p>\n

XU Xing<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u5f90\u661f\u00a0is a prominent Chinese writer and documentary filmmaker. Often called \u201dThe Chinese Jack Kerouac,\u201d his works have consistently engaged with national and international issues of politics, power, and moral responsibility. At the same time these larger issues are always evoked through the lives of the common working people in China. We are delighted to announce that with support from the BU Arts Initiative and the BU Center for the Humanities, we have invited XU Xing to Boston University as BUCSA\u2019s first incumbent of the\u00a0Artist and Writer in Residence<\/em>\u00a0program. With this program we hope to provide opportunities for our students and faculty to interact with unusual and outstanding writers and artists as an interdisciplinary and cross-school collaborative experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Xu enjoyed his most prolific period as a writer during the 1980s and 1990s, and his books reached a broad international audience when they were translated into French, English and German. These works include \u201cVariations Without a Theme\u201d \u65e0\u4e3b\u9898\u53d8\u594f and \u201cAll That is Left is Yours \u201d \u5269\u4e0b\u7684\u90fd\u5c5e\u4e8e\u4f60. In the early 1990s he migrated to Germany, staying in Heidelberg. After returning to his hometown Beijing, he began shooting documentary films. His work\u00a0<\/span>A Chronicle of My Cultural Revolution<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\u6211\u7684\u6587\u9769\u7f16\u5e74\u53f2 (2009) was based on his personal experiences growing up in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In his 2015 documentary\u00a0Summary of\u00a0<\/em><\/span>Crimes<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\u7f6a\u8bc1\u6458\u8981, Xu searches for peasants in Zhejiang who had been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison during the Cultural Revolution. His most recent work (2017) is his new film\u00a0<\/span>The Day of Reckoning<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\u814a\u6708\u4e09\u5341\u65e5\u5230\u6765, which uses a heartbreaking love story between a husband and wife as a vehicle with which to confront the contortions of China\u2019s political history since 1949.<\/p>\n

Xu Xing will be in residence at Boston University from early February until late April. He will be co-teaching a film course with Prof. Cathy Yeh on the New Chinese documentary movement which began during the 1990s and continues until today. His films will be screened during the time he is at BU and he will offer several workshops on different aspects of documentary filmmaking. In addition to one public lecture at BU, he will be also be reaching out to the greater Boston community where he will be giving lectures and screenings of his films.<\/p>\n

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