Yiwu: 35 Short Stories

Yiwu city, located in China's Zhejiang Province, is one of the most important trading nodes around the world for the commercialisation of small commodities of everyday use. In this Chinese city of 2,000,000 inhabitants, 14,000 of them are foreigners. Most foreigners in Yiwu are traders from the Middle East and North Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. In addition, foreigners from different regions of the world provide diverse services especially in the education and restaurant sectors. By gathering the short stories of 35 people (Chinese and from overseas) currently living and working in Yiwu, this video-documentary aims to reflect on the trajectories that brought these diverse population to Yiwu, and attempts to map the multiple languages spoken in the everyday sociality of this global and cosmopolitan city.