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The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World
directed by Weijun Chen, fl. 2007; produced by Lawrence Elman, fl. 2002, Drive Thru Pictures (Copenhagen, Capital Region (Denmark): Danish Broadcasting Corporation, 2008), 1 hour 23 mins
With a staff of nearly 1000 (including 300 chefs) and 5000 seats, West Lake is a combination theme park and eatery, offering a cross section of the country's changing society. Central is the restaurant's unstoppable owner Qin Linzi, a devout Buddhist, shrewd businesswoman and Communist Party member...Through the l...
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directed by Weijun Chen, fl. 2007; produced by Lawrence Elman, fl. 2002, Drive Thru Pictures (Copenhagen, Capital Region (Denmark): Danish Broadcasting Corporation, 2008), 1 hour 23 mins
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With a staff of nearly 1000 (including 300 chefs) and 5000 seats, West Lake is a combination theme park and eatery, offering a cross section of the country's changing society. Central is the restaurant's unstoppable owner Qin Linzi, a devout Buddhist, shrewd businesswoman and Communist Party member...Through the lives of Qin and her family, the customers and the staff, the film builds a picture of who is thriving and who is struggling in this new...
With a staff of nearly 1000 (including 300 chefs) and 5000 seats, West Lake is a combination theme park and eatery, offering a cross section of the country's changing society. Central is the restaurant's unstoppable owner Qin Linzi, a devout Buddhist, shrewd businesswoman and Communist Party member...Through the lives of Qin and her family, the customers and the staff, the film builds a picture of who is thriving and who is struggling in this new economic climate. Many of life's most important rites of passage take place under the West Lake's roof and it through these celebrations - a wedding between a wealthy property owner and his beautiful bride, a 70th birthday party - that the film explores the lives of ordinary Chinese, their strong sense of family duty and the relationship between love and money in contemporary China.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Lawrence Elman, fl. 2002, Drive Thru Pictures
Author / Creator
Weijun Chen, fl. 2007
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Danish Broadcasting Corporation
Topic / Theme
Chinese people, Food industry, Food preparation, Area Studies, Chinese
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Copyright © 2011. Used by permission of Danish Broadcasting Corporation.
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