China
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| Venue | Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall, North Melbourne, VIC | |||||||||||||
| Umbrella Event | Melbourne International Arts Festival | |||||||||||||
| First Date | 17 October 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Opening Date | 17 October 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Last Date | 20 October 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | |||||||||||||
| Status | Professional | |||||||||||||
| World Premiere | No | |||||||||||||
| Part of a Tour | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Description | In his latest show, China, photographer-storyteller William Yang returns to a motherland he never knew, the Australian-born Chinese a stranger in his homeland.
Yang takes us from the streets of Beijing, where electronics superstores jostle with echoes of the Cultural Revolution and the Ming Dynasty, to the sacred mountain Huang Shan, a must-climb for every Chinese pilgrim-tourist; from a wild night in a Mongolian herdsman?s hut, to the apartments of ordinary Chinese, a few months after the Tiannamen incident. Yang?s wryly sensitive perspective, his eye for detail, and his arresting im |
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| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | |||||||||||||
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One Person Show
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| Text Nationality | Australia
China |
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| Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | |||||||||||||
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| Event Identifier | 99904 | |||||||||||||
| Dataset | AusStage | |||||||||||||
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