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DESCRIPTION:If you have strong views either way regarding Mao Zedong and his legacy, 
 here’s your opportunity to discuss them along with a panel of experts 
 following the screening of THE PASSION OF THE MAO at the Cinequest Film 
 Festival in San Jose on March 11 at 2:00pm.  Bring your friends and 
 controversial questions or thoughts and share them with the crowd!  Each of 
 the contributors to this panel are highly regarded in their field, and the 
 exchange of perspectives on an extremely volatile topic promises to be 
 animated.\n\nTHE PASSION OF THE MAO is an irreverent documentary that 
 reexamines the Cultural Revolution and restores the \nonce bright 
 reputation of Mao Zedong. It manages all at once to put a new twist on 
 Mao’s life, to mock the recent \nfilm by Mel Gibson, and to demonstrate 
 how Mao’s influence still has a grasp on present day China.\n\nTo view 
 press kit and trailer:  www.thepassionofthemao.com\n\nSaturday, March 11th 
 at 2:00 pm - California Theater - 345 South First Street- San Jose, CA\n&\n 
 Sunday, March 12th at 2:45 p.m. - Camera 12 - 201 South Second Street - San 
 Jose, CA \n\nTo buy tickets:  
 http://www.cinequest.org/2006/programguide/event_view.php?eid=209\n\nSince 
 there is no single correct view on Mao Zedong, the director wants to use 
 the opportunity  of this premiere screening to have a diverse panel of 
 experts discuss the issues raised in the film. A list of panelists 
 follows.\n\nWHO KNEW COMMUNISM COULD BE SO FUNNY?\nMao Zedong—Cultural 
 Revolution chairman, Communism icon, “red menace.” To those facets, The 
 Passion of the Mao now adds “funny guy.” In this rollicking 
 documentary, the life and times of the  People’s Republic of China 
 dictator are examined to dispel many of the misconceptions regarding Mao, 
 as well as to shed new light onto the many contradictions. Best of all, 
 filmmaker Lee Feigon uses a cheeky tone to bring the many sides of history 
 together, blending interviews, stock footage, and animated interludes into 
 an informative and highly enjoyable essay.\n \nDON’T WORRY, IT WILL BE 
 CONTROVERSIAL!\nFeigon interviewed people who lived through the Cultural 
 Revolution—who say that Mao, and especially the Cultural Revolution, were 
 the best things in their lives. They credit the Cultural Revolution for 
 making them feminists and allowing them to have an education. Under Mao the 
 economy grew fast, laying the foundation for China’s recent success. Even 
 the Dalai Lama speaks fondly of Mao. And what about the anti-Maoist beliefs 
 that have sullied the reputation of the man once referred to as “the sun 
 in the sky?” They are part of a vast radical conspiracy, the result of 
 propaganda churned out by the same people who turned the tanks on the 
 Tiananmen demonstrators.\n\nThe Panel consists of:\n\nModerator: LEE FEIGON 
 - Director-writer-producer of THE PASSION OF THE MAO:\nA research associate 
 at the Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Chicago, Feigon 
 writes frequently about East Asian politics, economics, history, and 
 culture for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Nation, 
 the Chicago Tribune, the Atlantic, and the Boston Globe. He has been 
 interviewed on television shows such as MacNeil Lehrer, CNN, Hardball CNBC, 
 and the NBC Nightly News. This is his directorial debut.\n\nHis newest and 
 most divisive literary work is Mao: A Reinterpretation (2002). He is also 
 the author of the acclaimed Demystifying Tibet: Unlocking the Secrets of 
 the Land of the Snows (1996), as well as of China Rising: The Meaning of 
 Tiananmen (1990). His first book was the biography: Chen Duxiu: Founder of 
 the Chinese Communist Party (Princeton University Press, 1983). \n \n-      
 GAIL HERSHATTER - Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of 
 California, Santa Cruz. She is also the director of the Center for 
 Humanities Research and the co-director of the Center for Cultural Studies 
 at the school. She writes on woman and workers issues in modern China and 
 is the author of Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in 
 Twentieth-Century Shanghai (University of California, 1997), which has been 
 translated into Chinese.\n \n-       SUJIAN GUO - graduate of Peking 
 University in Beijing, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at 
 San Francisco State University. Dr. Guo has published more than two dozens 
 articles both in English and Chinese. He is the author of Post-Mao China: 
 from Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism? (2000) and is the editor of The 
 Journal of Chinese  Political Science.\n \n-       DAVID EWING  - Co-Chair 
 of the United States/China Peoples Friendship Association. He is an 
 attorney who specializes in immigration law for Chinese people. He is a 
 frequent English Language commentator on China-USA relations and on Mao and 
 the Chinese Revolution.\n \n-      CHRISTOPHER CONNERY - Co-director of the 
 Center for Cultural Studies and an Associate Professor of Literature at the 
 University of California, Santa Cruz.  He is the author of Empire of the 
 Text: Writing and Authority in  Early Imperial China (Roman & Littlefield, 
 1998), and "Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, 
 and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements" boundary 2 (Summer, 2001).  
 Professor Connery also serves on the editorial board of boundary 2.  \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/09/91273.php
SUMMARY:Panel on Mao Zedong following film: THE PASSION OF THE MAO
LOCATION:California Theater - 345 South First Street- San Jose,
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/03/09/91273.php
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