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    Foreign Brides In Meinung

    Hsiao-Fang LIN 2001 Taiwan Documentary color 60min Chinese DV/Betacam
    This documentary is a story about a group of special newcomers from Southeast Asia who married to the village of Taiwan. In Taiwan, we call them "Foreign Brides,' which is similar as the phenomenon of Mail-order brides in United States. As recent feminist discourse trying to broaden it's perspective to the global political economic scale. The documentary probably offer a lively example that the globalization is a set of complex, process in which the roles of gender, race, ethnicity, and class interweave together as big structure. In which, global restructuring is reinforcing and exacerbating exiting gender inequalities. The economic growth of Taiwan doesn't really challenge the exiting patriarchal system, it transformed into different way, impose on the inequality on Southeast women, through objectifying them as commodity in the marriage market.

    Director

    Hsiao-Fang LIN

    An independent filmmaker who has been long time concentrating on this local village Meinung to document Tobacco plantation, Anti-Dan movements, Hakka（local ethnic group）women, and foreign brides literacy program. Right now she is majoring Art Media Studies in Syracuse University, focusing on filmmaker. She is the director of the documentary《The Faded Blue Blouse》

    Hsiao-Fang LIN

    Producer: Hsiao-Fang LIN, Hsiao-Chuan HSIA

    Director: Hsiao-Fang LIN

    Cinematographer: Hsiao-Fang LIN, Jian-Kuo HSU

    Hsiao-Fang LIN

    rosefish@ms9.hinet.net

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