Made in Ethiopia Screening and Discussion

This event took place on January 30th, 2025 and was hosted in person at Georgetown University’s Intercultural Center Auditorium.

When a massive Chinese factory complex attempts a high-stakes expansion in rural Ethiopia, three women bet their futures on the promise of industrialization. As initial hope meets painful realities, they find themselves, like Ethiopia, at a pivotal crossroads.

Join Georgetown University’s Africa-China Initiative (ACI), alongside the African and Asian Studies Programs, for a screening of Made in Ethiopia (2024), followed by a discussion with co-director Xinyan Yu and moderated by ACI Director, Yoon Jung Park.

This event was co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Africa-China Initiative, African Studies Program, Asian Studies Program, and Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues.

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Xinyan Yu (Co-Director) is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in Washington DC. Born and raised in Wuhan, China, Xinyan started her journalism career in 2012 as a producer for BBC News in Beijing. She has covered major breaking news across Asia and North America for a decade, and won a White House News Photographers Association award, an ONA Digital Storytelling award and a WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media award. Now an independent filmmaker, Xinyan has directed content for international broadcasters including BBC, NHK, PBS NOVA and PBS Frontline. She is a New America National Fellow, a Firelight Media Doc Lab fellow, a Brown Girls Doc Mafia Sustainable Artist fellow and an alumnus of the Yaddo Residency.

Yoon Jung Park (Moderator) is the Director of the Georgetown University Africa-China Initiative. Dr. Park is one of the leading researchers in the subfield of China/Africa studies. Her work primarily focuses on Chinese migrants in Africa, African perceptions of and responses to the new Chinese migrants, and preliminary impacts of these migrant communities, particularly in South Africa.