After graduating Pace University with an Associates Degree in Arts and Sciences and a Computer Science Certificate, I enrolled in City College of New York (CCNY) of the City University of New York (CUNY) to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering. CCNY provided two great programs called IBM Cooperative Education Program and the CCNY-China Foreign Exchange Scholarship.
CCNY-China Exchange Scholarship offered me a chance to study Chinese language and culture for in Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou China.
The video is divided into three parts: Shanghai, Canton and Toisan. My interview is in the Canton section of the video at Sun Yat Sen University Foreign Student Dormitory and starts at time code: 07:17. The interview took place in my room.
The video was shot by award winning journalist Jon Alpert. Clips from the video were broadcast on television news programs.
Over the past thirty years, Jon Alpert has distinguished himself as an award-winning journalist. He has won three Primetime Emmys, eleven National News & Documentary Emmys and one National Sports Emmy. He has also won 3 Columbia-DuPont awards, a Peabody, and lots of other honors. He is unique among reporters because in addition to his awards for content he has won multiple Emmys in the craft categories—for his camerawork and editing. He is credited—or blamed—as one of the originators of the one-man-band verite style of reporting.
Alpert has consistently gained unprecedented access to world leaders and historic events during the past four decades—the first American TV reporter in Vietnam after the war—interviews with Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein—battlefield coverage from Angola to Afghanistan, Cambodia to Central America. Alpert has a history of bringing visibility to the invisible and his reports from around the world and all parts of the United States have been widely broadcasted on HBO and on NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, ESPN, and NHK. Alpert is the Co-founder of the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV). Although there are no records for this, Jon likes to claim that DCTV is the United States’ largest and most honored non-profit community media center. DCTV is located in a landmark firehouse in New York City’s Chinatown.
He also teaches Television Documentary at Columbia University.
Selected Filmography:
- Cuba: The People (1974)
- Chinatown: Immigrants in America (1976)
- Vietnam: Picking Up The Pieces (1977)
- Third Avenue (1980)
- One Year in A Life of Crime (1987)
- Lock-up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1995)
- High on Crack Street—Lost Lives in Lowell (1995)
- Life of Crime—Part 2 (1998)
- A Cinderella Season—The Lady Vols Fight Back (1998)
- From Ground Zero to Ground Zero (2002) Papa (2002)
- Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story (2003)
- Siberian Adoption Story (2005)
- Baghdad ER (2006)