Lecture Series
Screening and Discussion: Made in Ethiopia
Xinyan Yu
Online event
April 15 2026, 14:00 CET
Xinyan Yu is an Emmy-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker. She has directed, produced and shot films for PBS, BBC, NHK, and Channel News Asia. Her work has premiered at Tribeca, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and DOCNYC, and received support from Ford Foundation, IDA, and the Danish Film Institute. Made in Ethiopia lifts the curtain on China’s historic but misunderstood impact on Africa, and explores contemporary Ethiopia at a moment of profound crisis. It sheds light on how a dusty farming town finds itself at the new frontier of globalization when a massive Chinese industrial park lands in rural Ethiopia.