Thursday, September 22, starting at 7:00 p.m. in the Hotel A conference room, join the East Asia Center and Media Studies Professor Lori Morimoto for the first showing in our Fall 2022 Film Series, "A Soul Haunted by Painting," directed by Shuqin Huang.

The mesmerizing Gong Li stars in this true story of a Chinese painter, Pan Yuliang (Gong Li), whose work was celebrated in Paris yet rejected at home. At fifteen years old, she was sold into prostitution. Her life changes when she marries with a high official. Through her husband, she finds expression in western painting, and furthers her studies in Paris. Although internationally acclaimed as an artist, her past always continued to haunt her at home in China; and it was only after her death that she finally received the acceptance she so desperately sought.