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Ta’ang Review: Wang Bing’s Latest Immerses Us In a Refugee Crisis

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Christopher Campbell
Sep 12, 2016
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A video travelogue with a poet’s grace, Ta’ang stands out in the new wave of timely documentaries concerning the situations of various refugee groups around the world. But while the word “refugee” might currently make you think of Syrians fording the Mediterranean, Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing (West of the Tracks) instead follows the mostly obscure pligh…

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