ISLAND IN BETWEEN
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The rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen sit merely 2 miles off the coast of China. Kinmen has been a popular tourist destination for its military remnants of the 1949 Chinese Civil War, but is also the front line of the escalating tension between Taiwan and China.
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Director(s):
S. Leo ChiangProducer(s):
Yorke Wu, Jean TsienPresented as Part Of ASIAN|AMERICAN SHORTS
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