Bing Liu (filmmaker): Difference between revisions

Liu was born in [[China]].<ref name="vulture-021919" /> His family moved to the United States when he was five and soon after his parents got divorced.<ref name="ChiTrib-081518">{{cite web |last1=Metz |first1=Nina |title=A conversation with Bing Liu about his documentary 'Minding the Gap' |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-mov-bing-liu-interview-minding-the-gap-0817-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |accessdate=19 February 2019}}</ref> Liu obtained American citizenship when he was 14 years old after his mother moved him to [[Rockford, Illinois|Rockford]], IL[[Illinois]] and remarried. She had one son with his stepfather, a white American man. His stepfather was physically and mentally abusive, once shooting a gun at his mother.<ref name="vulture-021919" /> He referred to Liu and his brother and mother using racial slurs and subjected them to various types of abuse.<ref name="vulture-021919" /> Liu stated that he is no longer fluent in Mandarin as he once was because his stepfather did not let him and his mother communicate with each other using the language.<ref name="vulture-021919" />