{"id":67638,"date":"2016-11-09T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=67638"},"modified":"2016-11-03T17:13:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T21:13:16","slug":"iron-moon-the-poetry-of-chinese-workers-screening-and-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=67638","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Iron Moon: The Poetry of Chinese Workers&#8221; Screening and Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, November 09  07pm to 10pm<br \/>\nNYU China House<br \/>\n194 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.evbuc.com\/eventlogos\/151747910\/20161109ironmoon-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[67638]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.evbuc.com\/eventlogos\/151747910\/20161109ironmoon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Screening of &#8220;Iron Moon&#8221;, a documentary film directed by Xiaoyu Qin and Feiyue Wu that has won multiple awards, followed by a discussion with the directors.<\/p>\n<p>The event is co-sponsored by NYU China House, NYU Department of East Asian Studies and NYU Department of Cinema Studies&#8217; Asian Film &amp; Media Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>About the documentary film:<\/p>\n<p>An assembly line worker in an Apple factory who commits suicide at the young age of 24, leaving behind 200 poems of despair\u2014\u201cI swallowed an iron moon\u2026..\u201d; a guileless lathe operator who is rebuffed at every turn, living in the world of his poetry; a female clothing factory worker who lives in poverty but writes poetry rich in dignity and love; a coalminer who works deep in the earth year round, trying to contact and make peace with the spirits of his dead coworkers through his poetry; and a goldmine demolitions worker who blasts rocks several kilometers into mountainsides to support his family, while writing poetry to carry the weight of his fury and affections\u2014\u201cMy body carries three tons of dynamite\u2026.\u201d They could be any of the 350 million workers in China, and yet these five are also poets. Using poetry as a tool to chip away at the ice of silence, they express the hidden life stories and experiences of people living at the bottom of the society. This is one story behind the sudden rise of China, and a mournful song of global capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>Free admission. RSVP at:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/iron-moon-the-poetry-of-chinese-workers-screening-and-discussion-tickets-28266644294?aff=es2\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, November 09 07pm to 10pm NYU China House 194 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67639,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67638\/revisions\/67639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}