SectionB  Guasha

•Theintroduction “GuashaTreatment”•Today let's take a brief introduction ofa famous Chinese movie named "The Treatment".The film “The Treatment” takes themisunderstanding aroused by the traditional Chinese treatment guasha(skin scraping) as the story line,reflecting the predicament the overseas Chinese plunging into due to theculture conflicts. The story comes to a happy ending with the predicamentfinally broken through thanks to the sincerity and love between people. Thethought-provoking film is one of the best Chinese films that promote culturalunderstandings between the East and the West.

•Grandfather Xucomes from China to visit the family of his son, Datong Xu(Tony Leung), in St. Louis. While there, he gives his grandson, Dennis Xu(Dennis Zhu), a treatment of GuaSha to treat a slight fever (being unable toread English labels of medicine). The authorities, however, mistake theharmless traditional Chinese medical treatment for child abuse due to theobvious marks left on Dennis' back. The family goes through hell when the childis taken away by the child protection agency.