| dc.description.abstract | From Border to Border is a documentary film about the Chinese in India. The director, CHUNG, Shefong, used images of local life in India and diverse ethnic dialects to document the history of the Chinese Indians. Most texts or studies written about overseas Hakka Chinese mainly involved Southeast Asia. In South Asia, due to the small number of Hakka Chinese and its remote location, few people have visited the region to document the history of Hakka Chinese in India. This part of the information is quite scarce. Hence, The importance of preserving the history of the Chinese in India through this documentary is evident and special.
Through textual analysis and discourse analysis, this research explored how the video text and discourse in the documentary film From Border to Border present the elements of ＂Hakka,＂ ＂diaspora,＂ and ＂ethnic identity.＂ It also investigated whether the construction of self-identity was affected variously by the different experiences of diaspora between generations. We tried to find out the impact of From Border to Border as a documentary film on overseas Hakka researches.
The research findings reveal that the documentary film stacks up layers of identity by using linear narrative to lay out the history of the Chinese diaspora in terms of ＂Chinese culture,＂ ＂language use,＂ ＂industrial structure,＂ and ＂the other in the Sino-Indian war.＂ The identities among different generations differ according to age and migration experience. At the same time, with the progress of the times, pluralistic views of identity have emerged. Finally, the documentary film brings the audience′s attention to the Chinese diaspora in India. With its authentic images and rendering of sound, the film brings out a new feeling that is different from the research text. | en_US |