Looking East Harbin (1978-1990)
Title
Looking East Harbin (1978-1990)
Subject
TV series
URL
TV Series
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Description
Content description from Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsFdkSa-VpM&list=PLcwslYlIwL90SnMj4bmBQw9IIPBIGiDwf&index=8):
"Looking East" is a weekly TV series, produced and hosted by Chinese-American Yue-Sai Kan. The program was the first of its kind to introduce Asian cultures and customs to a growing and receptive American audience. The series garnered critical acclaim and won dozens of awards. As described by the New York Times: "Few people are able to bridge the East and West, but Yue-Sai Kan can, and does it with beauty, intelligence and grace." The series stayed on the air for 12 years, the last 2 years on the Discovery Channel. Based on this and other work Yue-Sai is credited as the first TV journalist to connect the East and West.
Ephemera: none available
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"Looking East" is a weekly TV series, produced and hosted by Chinese-American Yue-Sai Kan. The program was the first of its kind to introduce Asian cultures and customs to a growing and receptive American audience. The series garnered critical acclaim and won dozens of awards. As described by the New York Times: "Few people are able to bridge the East and West, but Yue-Sai Kan can, and does it with beauty, intelligence and grace." The series stayed on the air for 12 years, the last 2 years on the Discovery Channel. Based on this and other work Yue-Sai is credited as the first TV journalist to connect the East and West.
Ephemera: none available
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Yue-Sai Kan (author) (host)
Publisher
Yue-Sai Kan
Date
1978-1990
Citation
“Looking East Harbin (1978-1990),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed April 26, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/864.