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  • RUNTIME: 0h 26m
  • COUNTRIES: China
  • Subtitles: 普通话

Starting from the children’s party where Zhang Shengjia celebrated his ninth birthday at a KFC fast food restaurant in 2006, the Chinese artist and filmmaker’s essayistic archive film unfolds a cheerful cultural history of the birthday cake from a Chinese perspective. The convention reached China from Western Europe and North America in the early 20th century and merged with local birthday traditions. The constantly growing influence of Western consumer culture since Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms of the 1980s was exemplified in 1990 when almost 13,000 customers were registered on the opening day of the country’s very first McDonald’s restaurant in Shenzhen. Read More

Watch Birthday Cakes from China online. Featuring , Birthday Cakes from China is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in China and was released on 2024. Birthday Cakes from China was directed by Zhang Shengjia. Read Less