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    Up the Yangtze

    Poster of the movie Up the Yangtze
    2007     Documentary    
    Canada
    1h 33min
    G
    14A
    14A
    PG
    PG

    A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." In the biggest engineering endeavour since the Great Wall, China has set out to harness the Yangtze with the world's largest mega-dam.

    Meanwhile at the river's edge Yu Shui says goodbye to her family and turns to face the future. From their small patch of land, her parents watch the young woman walk away, her belongings clutched in a plastic shopping bag. The waters are rising.

    The Three Gorges Dam, gargantuan and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic and disquieting feature documentary on life inside the 21st century Chinese dream.

    Directed byYung Chang
    Written byYung Chang
    CompanyZeitgeist FilmsZeitgeist FilmsZeitgeist Films

    Featuring

    Jerry Bo Yu Chen
    Campbell Ping He
    Cindy Shui Yu

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