Director Jonathan Lewis will present clips from his film “China from the Inside” Episode 4: Freedom and Justice. Xiao Qiang, Director of the China Internet Project, and artist Hung Liu will discuss their media and human rights work in China and the US.

This event is free. Seating is first come, first served. RSVP at: http://kqedchinascreenings.eventbrite.com or (415) 553-2284

Jonathan Lewis serves as writer, narrator, producer and director of China from the Inside. He was granted unique access by the Chinese government to film this four hour documentary series, the new KQED-Granada Television co-production for PBS and the BBC. From his first meeting with the Chinese government to the final edits, China from the Inisde took Lewis over four years to complete.

Watch the entire series on PBS nation-wide:

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 
9:00-11:00pm       Episode 1: Power and the People
                   Episode 2: Women of the Country

Wednesday, January 17, 2007
9:00-11:00pm       Episode 3: Shifting Nature
                   Episode 4: Freedom and Justice

Xiao Qiang is the Director of the Berkeley China Internet Project. A physicist by training, Xiao Qiang received a B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China and studied as a PhD candidate in astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame. He became a full time human rights activist after the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. Xiao was the Executive Director of Human Rights in China (1991-2002), and is currently vice-chair of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy. Xiao is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and is profiled in the book “Soul Purpose: 40 People Who Are Changing the World for the Better,” (Melcher Media, 2003). He was also a visiting fellow of the Santa Fe Institute in Spring, 2002.

Hung LiuÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s paintings focus on turning the photo-realism of propaganda art Ì¢‰â‰” the style in which she was trained in China Ì¢‰â‰” into a fresh kind of history painting. Therefore, she converts socialist realism into social realism.

Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948, growing up under the Maoist regime. She immigrated to the US in 1984 to attend the University of California, San Diego, where she received her MFA. She currently lives in Oakland and is a tenured professor in the art department at Mills College.