The film is followed by a Q&A session with filmmaker Jenny Chio "Nong Jia Le - Peasant Family Happiness" depicts the everyday experience of 'doing tourism' in two rural, ethnic tourism destinations in Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, China. Focusing on the perspectives of village residents, this film portrays how modern, rural Chinese negotiate between the day-to-day consequences of tourist arrivals in their home villages and ideal projections of who they are and what their lives can achieve through tourism development.

Jenny Chio is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. Her scholarly research focuses on rural social change in China, ethnic identity, tourism and migration, and documentary studies. She is also an ethnographic filmmaker and is working in various collaborative documentary film projects.

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