Some 75 miles east of Hong Kong, in China’s Guangdong province lies the coastal fishing village of Wukan. It became the center of a worldwide media story in 2011 when protests broke out over the corruption of local Communist Party officials, who were thrown out of office by angry residents, precipitating a tense police siege of the town and ultimately new elections.
But that is only part of the story told in Lost Course by first-time Hong Kong documaker Jill Li, who followed the events and their many repercussions and twists over a period of seven years.
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