Up the Yangtze

Up the Yangtze

Up the Yangtze, 2007

Canada, DVD, Color, 93’

Director: Yung Chang

Language: English, Chinese

Screening: Thursday, April 4, 13:00, Sunday April 14, 17:00

A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze – navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as “The River.” The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river’s edge – a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam – contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle – provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China.

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