Pathway

Xu Xins film Dao Lu China 2012 offers an exclusive in camera encounter with Zheng Yan an 83 yearold veteran of the Chinese Red Army who calmly relates how he has navigated his countrys turbulent history over threequarters of a centuryBorn to a wealthy family in a foreign concession Yan joined the Chinese Communist Party CCP in 1941 because he sincerely believed in the socialist project and in its immediate capacity to free China from the Japanese yoke and eradicate deeprooted corruption