KwanTeo Film Archive · Work
Xia Nanyang
下南洋The project follows an elderly overseas Chinese person whose life and family ties are traced through letters and remittances sent home.
About the Work
The filing synopsis begins with overseas Chinese support for China’s reform and opening up, then looks back over one person’s lifetime. Personal struggles, a family’s changing fortunes and national events are connected through qiaopi, the letters accompanying remittances to relatives at home.
The China Film Administration record names Pearl River Film Group Co., Ltd. as the filing company, under story-film filing No. 083 of 2023. Approval to shoot does not establish whether filming has begun or the film has been completed or released, nor does this record establish a development relationship with another film.