Up the Yangtze
Summary:
Director Yung Chang uses the construction of China's massive Three Gorges Dam as a springboard to better understanding the social hierarchies and changing times in his homeland in this documentary focusing on the luxury cruise ship that carries predominately Western tourists down the Yangtze River. Constructed as a symbol of modern progress in China, the Three Gorges Dam has forced... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Chen Bo Yu
Yu Shui
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Review:
Nothing suits a sociocultural documentary portrait of a nation more powerfully than the gestalt of sweeping, irreversible change reshaping and redefining the landscape to an immeasurable degree, while the cameras are rolling. Yung Chang's Canadian-produced documentary Up the Yangtze benefits from just such an element. An essay on geopol... Continue >>
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