Members of the Chinese community in Brazil will shoot a film
based on the true story of an ethnic Chinese student who died in a
university hazing, local press reported on Friday.
It will be the first film produced by Chinese citizens residing
in Brazil.
Hsueh, a 22-year-old Chinese descent, started medical school in
1999 at the University of Sao Paulo. He was pushed into a swimming
pool and drowned by veteran students who staged a hazing to
"welcome" newcomers to the course, one of the most disputed in the
country.
Yuan Yiping, a Sao Paulo resident for 15 years and editor of a
local community newspaper, is the screenwriter of the bilingual
film in both Portuguese and mandarin. He said the film aims to
describe the living conditions of some 200,000 ethnic Chinese in
Brazil.
"We want to show the changes following Edison's death," he
sad.
Brazil's Superior Court of Justice (STJ) archived the case seven
years later, with none of the accused punished.
The incident shocked the Chinese community in Brazil at the
time.
"We expected the murderers to be found and punished according to
law," Fernando Ou, president of the Chinese Cultural Association of
Brazil, told the press on Friday.
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(Xinhua News Agency February 16, 2008)