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They Chose China
directed by Wang Shui-Bo; produced by Claude Bonin, National Film Board of Canada and Arte France (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 2006), 53 mins
It is January 1954. The Korean War is over. Captured UN soldiers held in POW camps are free to return home. Those who refuse repatriation to their homeland are transferred to a neutral zone and given 90 days to reconsider their decision. Among them are 21 American soldiers who decide defiantly to stay in China. Ba...
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directed by Wang Shui-Bo; produced by Claude Bonin, National Film Board of Canada and Arte France (Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 2006), 53 mins
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It is January 1954. The Korean War is over. Captured UN soldiers held in POW camps are free to return home. Those who refuse repatriation to their homeland are transferred to a neutral zone and given 90 days to reconsider their decision. Among them are 21 American soldiers who decide defiantly to stay in China. Back in the United States, McCarthyism is at its height. Many Americans believe these young men have been brainwashed by Chinese communis...
It is January 1954. The Korean War is over. Captured UN soldiers held in POW camps are free to return home. Those who refuse repatriation to their homeland are transferred to a neutral zone and given 90 days to reconsider their decision. Among them are 21 American soldiers who decide defiantly to stay in China. Back in the United States, McCarthyism is at its height. Many Americans believe these young men have been brainwashed by Chinese communists through a new form of thought control. But what really happened? Featuring never-before-seen footage from the Chinese camps as well as interviews with former POWs and their families, They Chose China tells the fascinating stories of these forgotten American dissidents. With the Cold War fading into memory, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Shuibo Wang (Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square) aims his camera on this astonishing story. In They Chose China, we meet and begin to understand a group of courageous men who fought for and then cut ties with the USA.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Claude Bonin, National Film Board of Canada, Arte France, Wang Shui-Bo
Author / Creator
Wang Shui-Bo
Date Published / Released
2006-04-05
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Speaker / Narrator
Wang Shui-Bo
Topic / Theme
Expatriates, Communism, Prisoner of war camps, Korean Conflict, 1950-1953, War and Violence, Humanities
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2005 by the National Film Board of Canada
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