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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Chinese development has depended on a vast influx of 250 million migrant workers into the cities - some have prospered but most are poorly paid and housed, with few rights. Mass protests mean the government can no longer take them for granted. THE TRAINEE CHEF'S STORY Li Xu Bin is a migrant worker like millions of others, on low pay and with little job security, living with his wife in a single room in Beijing's suburbs. They have left their child...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Discover how the father of the Chinese nation combined ruthlessness and vision to unify his country, create the largest empire that part of the world had known, and execute a clear and coherent philosophy that would be China's political model for almost a millennium.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
China's "new billionaires" are well-known but what about the small businesses? Many were set up by migrants who have battled against hardship - and many are women. THE PR BUSINESS 24 year old Tian Qiuyu started her business while she was still at university and now employs 6 people - but she never forgets her roots in a poor, remote village area where education was a fight against the odds. She wants to help educate other young people from the country....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Consider what it must have been like to be among the very first historians, not only practicing your art, but having to define it and its standards, as well. See how fundamental questions about writing history were answered by Herodotus, Thucydides, and Sima Qian.
Publisher
Pro Doco
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Included are the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen as well as the World ‘s most densely populated city of Hong Kong. A vast floating population from rural areas migrates to and from these cities. Rural villages are visited to show why people leave for work and lifestyles in cities and why others are anxious about the future of villages. The government is planning a major shift in population from the villages to existing and new cities...
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
In our search for Chinese religious experience, we go to Taiwan. A whole pantheon of gods both local and imported from the mainland are worshipped in thousands of Buddhist and Taoist temples. Several strands make up the religious life of the village: a Confucian respect for past and the ancestors, the cosmic pattern of the Tao that permeates all levels of existence and manifests itself through oracles, the local gods who dispense justice and favors,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The communist revolution gave women theoretical equality, but centuries-old oppressions still persist. Women have suffered through the "one child" policy. But women are now among China's top entrepreneurs. "ONE CHILD" POLICY China's coercive policy of forbidding more than one child has had a cruel effect on China's women. The policy is now being relaxed - but some women are happy with one child. SUICIDE WATCH China is the only country where the suicide...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
China is now a market economy, but holds on to the communist political system - pollution, corruption and ethnic divisions cause great tensions. POLITICS They call it "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" but the communist party has a monopoly on power and no opposition is tolerated. There are tensions in regions such as Xinjiang Province where movements for independence have led to violence. PROTEST In a one-party system the people are the opposition....
Publisher
The History® Channel
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
When completed, China's Three Gorges Dam will tower 607 feet in the air and weigh 40 Great Pyramids. Other than China's Great Wall, it will be the only man-made object visible from the moon. Supporters see it as key to a new China, controlling floods and bringing hydroelectric power to one of its least-developed areas. Critics voice a litany of concerns--from environmental to flooding the spectacular area for which it's named. We trace its story--from...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The wars of the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. were crucial in forging the later history of China. Study the military technology of the ancient Chinese and the conflicts through which the first Qin and Han emperors welded together a group of antagonistic kingdoms, creating a united China.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Among the most comprehensive and original movies about the Chinese Contemporary Art scene. Shot on location in '798' - Beijing's unique Art District where it all took shape. 'Project 798 - New Art In New China' explores Chinese society and culture, as well as many forms of artistic expression, ranging from oil painting to cutting-edge performance art, through the eyes of the artists themselves. With the participation of China's most acclaimed artists:...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The film concerns the traditional "floating population" who fish Chinese coastal waters from family sized Junks based in Hong Kong in competition with salaried fisherman using large, mechanized boats. The combined effect of education and an increased integration with shore life is putting strains on the old ways. This is a "process film" in that it portrays the economic activities of three fishing families, each pursuing a different kind of fishing....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While President Xi Jinping talks about The Chinese Dream, the Chinese people talk about healthcare, education, housing and retirement. Even after vast economic development, the fate of many Chinese remains in doubt. China's leaders must deal with the Big Four social concerns.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Witness the early development of a unique culture that viewed itself as constituting the entirety of the world and thus the site of all cultural advancement, with the latter self-image largely maintained even after China gained an awareness of the world beyond its borders.
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Find Me is a profoundly moving documentary that tells the stories of three families who adopt children from China as well as the stories of those who loved these children first; The biological parents who feel they can’t keep their children and the orphanage nannies or foster-families who must say goodbye to the children they’ve raised for months…or years..
Publisher
Flying Cloud Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How did a country that until 2010 had no organ donation system, become one of the world's organ transplant leaders? For years, China claimed that the organs came from executed prisoners, but the numbers didn't add up. Short wait times and a seemingly endless supply of donors, made China a popular destination for transplant surgeries that can take years of waiting in other countries. But the question no one was asking is where do these organs come...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
How has China transformed, inside 30 years, from developing nation to the world's next largest economy after the USA? Includes interviews with historians, eye-witnesses and party officials. TIANANMEN SQUARE A dramatic turning point was the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 - the communist party decided to bring in economic, if not political, freedom. It meant an historic turning away from state control to a market economy. AN ANCIENT CIVILISATION...
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