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China Cry
Directed byJames F. Collier
Screenplay byJames F. Collier
Based onChina Cry
by Nora Lam & Irene Burk Harrell
Produced byDon L. Parker
StarringJulia Nickson-Soul
France Nuyen
James Shigeta
CinematographyDavid Worth
Edited byDuane Hartzell & Ruby Yang
Music byJoel Hirschhorn & Al Kasha; "No One But You" performed by Irene Cara
Production
companies
Parakletus, TBN Films
Distributed byPenland Productions
Release date
  • 2 November 1990 (1990-11-02) (USA)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Box officeUS$4,212,828

China Cry is a 1990 American biographical film set during rise of the communist state in China, based on the book by Nora Lam.[1]

It is set in the 1950s based on the true story of Sung Neng Yee.

Born into a wealthy Chinese family, she is first eager to become part of Mao Zedong's "new society". But the Maoist regime brings hardship and misery to her family. She is arrested by authorities, and she believes that only Jesus Christ must have saved her when she survives a firing squad while condemned asa a Committed Christian from a Christian Intelectual family by a Northern Chine State Security Woman Officer after Shi urges her to kiss t Red Flag. She is taken to a labour camp while pregnant, but survives to take her children and family to freedom, which is granted after she sends from the Labour Camp in Shanghai three copies of the same telegram to the Chairman Mao, Prime Minister Chu & Beijing Police Headquarters.

The film was directed by James F. Collier, and is an example of positive Asian characters in a Christian-themed film.

The film's theme song "No One But You" is performed by Irene Cara.

References

  1. ^ Lam, Nora; Schneider, Richard H. (1991) [1st pub with Irene Burk Harrell HarperCollins 1983]. China Cry: The Nora Lam Story (Paperback ed.). Nashville: Thomas Nelson. ISBN 978-0840731876.