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NYU Liberal Studies Core Program students—aka "the Freshmen"—headed to Moganshan for a week­end of writ­ing, hik­ing and explo­ration, both of crum­bling Jazz Age for­eign concession-era resort vil­las and of their own emerg­ing iden­ti­ties as writ­ers.

LSP Core stu­dent Eulalie van Leeuwen a.k.a. Lily Lion was there with her cam­era, record­ing stu­dents read­ing their work in the woods, relax­ing at mem­oirist and nov­el­ist Mark Kitto's Moganshan Lodge, and per­form­ing in the pleas­antly spooky con­fines of the aban­doned Moganshan church. She's edited the footage into a tight doc­u­men­tary short on the expe­ri­ence, "Fifty Students on a Mountaintop: Writing in Moganshan"

Enjoy! (VPN required within main­land China; Youku post­ing forth­com­ing).