Boundless Plains to Share: Lost Years and the Chinese Diaspora

What is it like being a person of Chinese descent in the West? This is what Kenda Gee seeks to answer in Lost Years. But while the documentary offers an engaging chronicle of the diaspora from the mid 1850s to now, Juliana Qian – herself a Chinese-Australian – feels that it misses an opportunity to investigate the racism that persists today.

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