New Acquisition Highlight: 'Empire of Dust', documentary film by Bram van Paesschen

The ASC Library recently acquired this documentary film about two men who work for the Chinese Railway Engineering Company in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The men  represent two different cultures who clash in the dust of the former Belgian colony: Chinese Lao Yang and Congolese Eddy, who speaks Mandarin fluently. An occasionally hilarious report of a less than stable working relationship, which also reflects the unstoppable rise of China. The film is the subject of our latest Acquisition Highlight.