China: Beyond the Great Wall
UW Memorial Union-Shannon Hall 800 Langdon St., Madison, Wisconsin 53706
press release: Pricing is as follows: UW-Madison students are $6, Union Members and non-UW students are $11, UW Faculty and Staff are $12, and the general public are $13. Tickets can be purchased on our website, at the Memorial Union box office or by calling 608-265-ARTS.
For three months, adventure filmmaker and author Karin Muller traveled alone throughout China - living with Tibetan nomadic yak herders, Mongolian wrestlers, and Buddhist warrior monks. Through the eyes of businessmen and farmers, domestic workers and line-dancing matriarchs, Karin documented China’s extraordinary social, economic, and political transformation - and some of unintended consequences: China’s massive urban migration, ghost cities, and fake iPhone markets. Muller was invited behind the scenes of a traveling opera troop, professional cricket fights, and Shanghai’s dating market. She even stumbled upon China’s real-life Harry Potter.
China: Beyond the Great Wall explores the many faces of this vast and complicated land - and reveals the kindness and humanity of a people too often defined only by statistics and stereotypes.
Join us for the world premiere of this film!