Putting Down Roots
Food Practices and
Liminality among Retired Chinese Immigrants in Hacienda Heights

2025

Through the lens of everyday food practices, gardening, produce exchange, and communal feasts, the film explores how acts of planting, tending, and sharing food shape the emotional and cultural lives of those navigating life between China and the United States, and how memory, care, and a sense of belonging are cultivated through these daily rituals.

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