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Iron and Silk
Content:	Feature Film
Available From:	Facets Video
Media Type:	Videocassette
Release Date:	1990
Audience:	Higher Education Secondary Education
Running Time:	94 mins.
Language:	English and Chinese with English Subtitles
Author:	Directed by Shirley Sun
Resource Library Number:	EACV 93
Subject:	Anthropology and Sociology Arts Biography
Subheading:	Cross-Cultural Exchange Martial Arts Other Biography
Region:	East Asia
Country:	China

Mark Salzman stars in an engaging film based on his two years of teaching English in the People’s Republic of China in the early 1980's. In his spare time, he takes martial arts classes from a strict but genuine master, falls in love with a young Chinese doctor, and witnesses political oppression. With Vivian Wu, Pan Qingfu, and Jeanette Lin Tsui

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