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‘Finding Yingying’ Review: Heartfelt Documentary Probes a Chinese Student’s Horrific Disappearance

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Guy Lodge Film CriticIn traveling all the way to the U.S. to continue her academic career, 26-year-old Chinese grad student Yingying Zhang confessed to her diary that she had doubts about her journey: Thinking of her adoring, none-too-wealthy parents, she questioned whether it was worth their “emotional and financial sacrifice” to send her abroad.

Neither Zhang nor her parents could have known that she herself would be what they lost irrecoverably to America. On June 9, 2017, only two months into her studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she was abducted and murdered by former student Brendt Christensen — an unhappy truth not confirmed until two years later.Jiayan “Jenny” Shi’s heartfelt, unassuming film “Finding.

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