My Life in China

How it feels

A Chinese American man retraces his own migration from a village in China to Hong Kong and then to the United States. The film follows him as he returns to his home village with his American born son many years later.

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What happens

My Life in China is a 2014 documentary film directed by Kenneth Eng. The film follows the 2007 journey of a Chinese American man, Yau King Eng, the father of the film’s director, tracing the path he made decades before from his home village in China near Toisan in Guangdong province to Hong Kong and then to the United States. Technically, the film shows the original journey retrospectively from the present time living in the United States with his family and subsequently when Yau King Eng returns many years later to visit his home village in China with his American born son Kenneth. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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