Event

Category: Second Sunday Culture Films

Chinese Restaurants—Canadian Plains (2005)

The Penn Museum’s annual Second Sunday Film Series is held in conjunction with the 2016-2017 Penn Humanities Forum on Translation. This year’s culture films are curated around the themes of translation, accents, and languages. The series kicks off with Chinese Restaurants—Canadian Plains, a short film by director Cheuk Kwan, who joins Josephine Park, Associate Professor, English and Asian American Studies at Penn, for a post-screening discussion. The film follows the charming and gregarious Jim Kook, who came to the prairie town of Outlook, Saskatchewan as a “paper son” using a dead Chinese Canadian’s identity. Kook became fluent in the language and culture of the plains of Canada, in the process making himself and his New Outlook Café essential to the town for 40 years.

Free with General Admission