@article{1355981,
      recid = {1355981},
      author = {Choy, Christine.},
      title = {Ha ha Shanghai [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (78 min.)},
      year = {2001},
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      abstract = {In 1992 the filmmaker Christine Choy returned to Shanghai  for the first time in over thirty years: to track down the  title of her family's house. She also wanted to locate an  old schoolmate. She found her quest was like going down the  rabbit hole with Franz Kafka as a tour guide. Her mother  had abandoned the family's house on leaving China for the  U.S. in the early 1960's. Christine was sent to innumerable  city housing authorities and agencies only to find that the  house had never been registered with the city of Shanghai  and the government had taken over the property when her  mother left. Trying to take it back from the city now would  "shame the city and therefore the country" and would be  considered traitorous. Christine finally located her old  girlfriend, Li Dao Wen, at the Music Conservatory after  several baffling interviews with Li's estranged relatives  and innumerable fortune tellers. The filmmaker found many  people in Shanghai still haunted by the ghosts of the  Cultural Revolution and guarded in their speech to avoid  being labeled "anti-social. Her trip had become a  frustrating voyage into the nature of modern China.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1355981},
}