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The Trained Chinese Tongue

The Trained Chinese Tongue

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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The Trained Chinese Tongue
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    The Trained Chinese Tongue

    The Trained Chinese Tongue

    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 fo...

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