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The first year of ‘British Born Chinese’

Posted on 1 March 2016 by Elena Barabantseva

‘British Born Chinese’ was launched with a premier screening in Manchester in April 2015 to enthusiastic reception from the audience captured in this audio-video collage.  Since then, the film has been shown in China and Europe. In September 2015 the 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations hosted an evening screening of the ‘BBC’. In November 2015,DSC_6597 the film was screened at the Minzu University of China in Beijing (the main national university for ethnic minorities in China),  featured in the ‘Happenings’ programme of the Bookworm Bookshop in Beijing and Suzhou, and included in the programme of the 6th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival.

DSC_6678Following the screenings in UK and China, the film received favourable reviews in national and international media.

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Film review: British Born Chinese – a marriage of cultures in Manchester | Mancunian Matters

EuropeTimes review

BBC-British Born Chinese-2177[1]In February 2016 ‘British Born Chinese’ was screened as part of the LSE ‘Food for Thought’ Literary festival.

The podcast with post-screening discussion (with Veronique Pin-Fat, Anna Chen, and Elena Barabantseva) is available for downloading.

On March 28 2016 the film was screened as part of the special programme at the 19th World Film Festival in Tartu (Estonia).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted in Cultural Engagement Partnerships, Models of Distinctions, Networks, University of Manchester

The Launch of Disasterhistory.org

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Web searches remain the predominant avenue for non-academic researchers seeking historical data or contextualisation. Yet online searches on the major topics that I have been researching and publishing on for years – famine, earthquakes and other types of disaster in East Asia – continue to produce next to nothing of much value or depth when performed by the general user (outside, that is, the subscription-walls of Jstor and other academic platforms). So a couple of years ago I held a workshop at Manchester where about a dozen historians from several continents were able to attend. What came out of it was the goal of making up-to-date and reliable information on the subject of disasters in Chinese history, currently beyond the reach of many outside academia, freely available online. We designed and built the site over the year, and a couple of us flew to a conference of anthropologists of disaster in Chengdu last month to formally launch DisasterHistory.org.
Some users have described the site to me as a welcomed public service, but all involved also stand to benefit: making the research conducted here at Manchester and by colleagues around the world more easily accessible simply makes our work more relevant. That can only be a good thing. As for how soon the site will be high in Google hits? That’ll come with time.

More than any other academic project I’ve worked on, DisasterHistory.org is all about colleagues volunteering their time and work. It grew out of a research network funded by the British Inter-University China Centre, and for the moment, the team of historians contributing are limited to those who have worked on disasters in Chinese history, but we hope to soon expand our content to cover other parts of the globe, to include other disciplines, and to use other languages, Chinese especially – although each of these (considering the complexity they add to site construction and functionality) might have to wait until a second stage of funding. For now I’m hugely grateful for colleagues, currently spread out in the UK, the US, Finland and China, for their ideas and contributions.

But there is another added dimension that I’m particularly excited out. With additional financial support from the University’s Learning Enrichment Fund, last spring I incorporated an optional disaster research project into the course work for my first year module Modern China, with the idea that, subject to review by an expert in the field, student work could help populate the site with articles on more obscure disasters; the work of six UG (plus 2 PG) students now appears on the site, which is a great chance for students to showcase their work online, and for the site to broaden its coverage.

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As it grows in time as an informational platform and collaborative space, DisasterHistory.org should facilitate scholarly engagement with journalists and other professionals, possibly policymakers and practitioners, and the general public, while helping to shape future research questions and fostering projects that will meet practical and pressing needs beyond the academic world. We hope to build collaborative, data-pooling and data-mapping features into the site in order to foster opportunities for co-production of research by scholars worldwide, for example, on death counts and mortality rates, which in the case of famine are notoriously unreliable.

 

Better not to end on that depressing note, though. I encourage anyone with work that might be related to disasters (broadly-defined) in any discipline, or who might know a colleague-friend who does, or anyone with ideas on any type of collaboration, to be in touch as we move into our next stage!

 

Posted on 3 December 2015 by sarahcoakley

‘British Born Chinese’ public launch screening and discussion

Posted on 23 March 2015 by Elena Barabantseva

A documentary film about the experiences of Daniel and Kevin, boys born to Chinese migrants and living in Manchester (UK). Made over the course of two years in experimental reflexive and participatory style, the film explores the challenges faced by the two boys seeking to reconcile their Britishness with Chineseness.

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Reserve your free tickets on Eventbrite

There will be a discussion following the film led by Dr. Elena Barabantseva (Project lead researcher and film co-producer) with the first published British born Chinese novelist, PP Wong, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Dr. Véronique Pin-Fat and the director of the film, Andy Lawrence.

PP Wong.JPGPP Wong is the first British born Chinese novelist to secure a publishing deal in the UK. Her novel The Life of a Banana covers the topic of racial bullying in London. It has been longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015. She was born in Paddington, London and she spent her childhood moving between London and Singapore. She is a freelance writer and also the Editor-in-Chief of www.bananawriters.com The website is a voice for East Asian and South East Asian writers.

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Véronique Pin-Fat is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester and is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Social Sciences. She researches ethics and in particular, focuses on questions about humanity and the self. She is an advocate of cosmopolitanism having been born to a Chinese father and French mother. Her book explores the reasons why grappling with universality and ethics seems to be a profound endeavour and where we end up when we do.

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Andy Lawrence is filmmaker in residence and lecturer in Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester. He is the founder of AllRitesReversed, a documentary film production company.

 

 

For more details on the film project see ‘British Born Chinese‘

Posted in Events, Models of Distinctions, University of Manchester | Tagged cultural engagement partnerships, films, Knowledge Exchange
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