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The Trained Chinese Tongue

Leaving April 30 • 19m

Directed by Laurie Wen • 1994 • United States

Filmmaker Laurie Wen examines how Chinese immigrants live at the complex crossroads of food, language, colonization, and immigration by approaching a series of strangers—all immigrant women—in a Chinatown grocery store and then following them home for dinner.

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