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Up the Yangtze [videodisc]

A "farewell cruise" takes a luxury ship up the vast Yangtze River shortly before completion of the massive Three Gorges Dam. The passengers glimpse a rapidly changing countryside, while the local people struggle to adapt as their lives are irrevocably altered.

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Corporate Authors: Eyesteelfilm (Firm), National Film Board of Canada, National Geographic Channel (Television station : Washington, D.C.), CBC Newsworld, American Documentary, Inc, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Zeitgeist Films
Other Authors: Aung-Thwin, Mila, Wong, Germaine Ying Gee, Christou, John, Chang, Yung, 1977-, Alary, Olivier, 1975-
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
Chinese
Sichuan Yi
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : Zeitgeist Films, 2008.
Edition:Anamorphic widescreen format (16:9).
Series:POV (Television program)
Subjects:
Dams > China.
Yangtze River Gorges (China) > Economic conditions.
Yangtze River Gorges (China) > Social conditions.
Documentary films > Canada.
Feature films > Canada.
Nonfiction films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures > Canada.
Mandarin dialect films.
Yi language films.
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Table of Contents:
  • Saying goodbye
  • Faux-socialism
  • Shipping off
  • Cindy and Jerry
  • How to talk to Westerners
  • All of them are happy
  • Different lives
  • First in my family
  • The superstar
  • Unrecognizable.
  • Special features include: Deleted scenes
  • Time-lapse flood footage of the Yangtze River
  • 2006 Research Demo, exploring the city of Zhaojia
  • theatrical trailers.

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