Our project is called #2511 - How Tan Weiwei declared domestic vioence in China through music- to celebrate the date of the day against violence against women.
We decided to focus on a specific part of violence which is domestic violence, specifically domestic violence in China. The problem of domestic violence is still a huge problem in China, in fact we found out that every 7.4 minutes women are subjected to violence from their partner, but only in 2016 was created the anti-domestic violence law to protect the victims, with legal basis, even it still has some weaknesses. Given that this is still a serious problematic in this country, we decided to focus on a chinese singer and songwriter, Tan Wei Wei, who wrote an entire music album based on denouncing the problem of domestic violence in China. The album is called 3811, 38 is her age and 11 are the women who inspired her songs. (this where the name of our project comes). We concentred on her most famous song, Xiao Juan, that talks about actual cases of domestic violence happened in the country. Her goal was to speak up about the issue, remembering the victims and denouncing the fact that these cases are not reported with transparency.
The instrument we chose to use is an informative video through which we can display our analysis and interpretation of the song Xiao Juan, with the ultimate goal of showing the improvements to change, at least partially, the situation in China.
In conclusion, we chose this theme to distance ourselves from the topic of women journalists and talk about violence in a different perspective. We’ve chosen specifically China because we have a Chinese member and we think suppose a phenomenon under a different culture might be a though-provoking topic.
By Bombiero Emma, Jingwen Yang, Hoxha Olessia, Toffano Olga, Vassanelli Virginia
Of the many projects, I was immediately struck by the one focused on violence in China because my three-year studies allowed me to get more side-by-side with this culture, without ever teaching me about this theme. One would hope that there would always be good topics and realities to tell to fill three years of teaching, perhaps the time to deal with ugly realities like this was not there...
For me, this video was helpful in adding this knowledge to my repertoire as well. I really appreciated the fact that the students who made the work used the same medium as my group, giving it a different nuance. In fact, we wanted to insert a few lines of explanation and…