Up the Yangtze

Up the Yangtze

Infobox Film
name = Up the Yangtze


image_size = 250px
caption = the film's poster
director = Yung Chang
producer = Mila Aung-Thwin
Germaine Ying-Gee Wong
John Christou
writer = Yung Chang
narrator = Yung Chang
starring = Yu "Cindy" Shui as herself Chen "Jerry" Bo Yu as himself
music = Olivier Alary
cinematography = Wang Shi Qing
editing = Hannele Halm
distributor = Zeitgeist Films
released = 2008
runtime = 93 min.
country = Canada
language = English and Mandarin
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 419930
imdb_id = 1114277

"Up the Yangtze" is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. The theme of the film is the transition towards consumer capitalism from a farming, peasant-based economy as China develops its rural areas.

Plot summary

Two young people are the focus of the film. One girl from a particularly poor family living on the banks of the Yangtze near Fengdu, named Yu Shui, is followed as she leaves her family to work on one of the cruise ships serving wealthy western tourists, at the same time as her family is being forced from their home due to the flooding that accompanied the building of the dam. The film shows her acclimatization to the consumer economy of tourism as well as modern technology of the cruise ships, juxtaposed with her family and other older citizens who are displaced from a rural lifestyle to cities where they must pay for the vegetables they used to grow on their own. Another young man tries to earn more cash on the ship as a porter and singer than his parents do in their jobs.

Critical reception

The film was well-received by film critics, and was described as “astonishing” documentary which “refuses to editorialize” by "The New York Times". [cite news |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/movies/25yang.html |title=A Visit to Old China, Before It Drowns |last=Holden |first=Stephen |authorlink=Stephen Holden |date=April 25, 2008 ] It garnered a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, [cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/up_the_yangtze/ |title=rottentomatoes.com ] and a rating of 84 on Metacritic. [cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/uptheyangtze |title=metacritic.com ]

creenings and awards

ee also

* Three Gorges Dam

References

External links

* [http://www.uptheyangtze.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117935563.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 Up the Yangtze!] , by John Anderson.


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