Cinema 42
Medicine Man
Season 3 Episode 3 | 17m 27s
Documentary Short about a Chinese Medicine Man from 1888 in rural Oregon.
A century ago, the world was in the grips of the Spanish flu pandemic, and it was the influence of traditional Chinese medicine that saved the lives of an entire community in rural Oregon. This is the story of Chinese immigrants and what they built in the Oregon wilderness at the height of the gold rush… This is the story of Kam Wah Chung.
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Cinema 42 is a local public television program presented by SOPBS
Cinema 42
Medicine Man
Season 3 Episode 3 | 17m 27s
A century ago, the world was in the grips of the Spanish flu pandemic, and it was the influence of traditional Chinese medicine that saved the lives of an entire community in rural Oregon. This is the story of Chinese immigrants and what they built in the Oregon wilderness at the height of the gold rush… This is the story of Kam Wah Chung.
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