No. 16, Barkhor South Street

No. 16, Barkhor South Street

From the Chicago Reader (September 1, 1998). — J.R. The fascinating thing about this award-winning feature-length documentary (1996) by Duan Jinchuan from mainland China is that it often seems to approximate the work of Frederick Wiseman in showing us the everyday workings of contemporary society — although the society in this case is one we generally know little about. The focus here is on a neighborhood committee in Lhasa, Tibet, where citizen…