Becoming American
Subtitle: Program 3 : No turning back : the Chinese experience
By: a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc., in association with Thomas Lennon Films ; a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York ; produced by Steve Cheng, Thomas Lennon ; written by Thomas Lennon and Bill Moyers
Contributors: Angier, Joe; Lin, Maya Ying; Films for the Humanities (Firm); Public Affairs Television (Firm); Thomas Lennon Films; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Series: Moyers collection on DVD; POL 320 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: Interviews; Chinese Americans
Other titles: Chinese experience; No turning back
Description: "Presents intimate portraits of the new Chinese Americans who face a struggle common to so many immigrants: to reconcile some losses of their old culture in order to embrace their adopted American one. A follow-on interview with artist and architect Maya Lin supplements the program."--Container.
Notes: "A Bill Moyers special"--Container.

Originally broadcast on PBS television stations Mar. 25-27, 2003.

Viewer's guide, educator's guide, and other resources available on the World Wide Web.

Series producer, Thomas Lennon ; series editor, Ruby Yang ; original score, Brian Keane and George Gao ; directors of photography, Michael Chin, Richard Numereoff, Allan Palmer ; editors, Ruby Yang, Li Shin Yu ; film sequences: director, Michael Chin ; producer, Jessica Cohen.

Host, Bill Moyers.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: Power of race; power of will; title: 1950s: two separate worlds; title: Benny Pan: one man's story; title: 1960s: Civil Rights, new hopes; title: 1970s: new faces, a new life; title: 1980s Detroit: doing something; title: A new stereotype emerges; title: The Chinese American "identity"; title: Personal journey: interview with Maya Lin, artist and architect.