Few of us have stopped to consider the lives of the workers who manufacture the objects that make up our daily lives. We use these objects without knowing anything about the Foxconn plants in which they are made, or even where these factories are located, let alone who works in them. One such worker was the young Chinese poet Xu Lizhi, who, at the age of 24, jumped out of a building not far from where he worked at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen.
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Arts documentary, first broadcast before Ai Weiwei's arrest by the Chinese authorities in April 2011...
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A Tibetan immigrant returns to her home country to witness the Chinese occupation.