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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Made in China tells one of the millions of stories of migrants from rural China who comprise the backbone of the Chinese economic miracle. It provides a human face behind the ubiquitous label "Made in China." This massive dislocation of people may well represent the largest, most rapid migration in human history. The film demonstrates how one generation of Chinese is experiencing the culture shock of an Industrial Revolution which took centuries in...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It is often said that history is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. While a tremendous amount of literature has been devoted to the turning points of the Western History, little attention has been paid to the US and European policies towards the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and the Middle Kingdom's involvement in World War One. As today's China is gaining its undisputed superpower status, the world press speculates with tremor...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The new China as you've never seen it before through the astonishing work of the painters and sculptors currently turning the art world on its head. Art historian Evan Hughes, son of Sydney art dealer, Ray Hughes, visits the studios of some of the artists whose fortunes have been transformed by the vast sums now being offered for their works. Is Chinese modern art the greatest movement since Cubism? That's the opinion of many western experts stunned...
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival - where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity - to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China - where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. Blending curiosity with comedy, Mardi Gras: Made in China is the only film to explore how the toxic products directly...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Journey across China from the peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild and rare creatures.
7) China
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
The People's Republic of China is the world's most populous country and certainly on the checklist of any serious-minded Globetrotter. In this episode we take a tour of the cosmopolitan cities of Shanghai, China's largest city, and Beijing, where we discover quirky Chinese delicacies; check out martial arts' theatre, which still shows films starring the late, great actor, Bruce Lee; and witness the beauty of an ice sculpture festival that features...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
China is flexing its economic muscle, investing all over the world. What does this mean for the West? AFRICA China needs access to energy and raw materials - that's why it's pouring huge investment into Africa. Mozambique's economy, for example, is booming, with Chinese-led construction and agriculture projects. Is this part of a "grand plan" on China's part? Who is "master" and who is "servant" in these new relationships? THE EU also receives Chinese...
11) China Remix
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This short documentary explores China's burgeoning African entertainment industry through the lives of three African hip-hop artists who are trying to find success in the face of challenging labor and immigration laws in China's southeastern city of Guangzhou. The film follows the entertainers as they prepare for their shows, perform, and live their daily lives with their Chinese and African family members and friends.
12) China Undercover
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A special undercover report from China’s secretive Xinjiang region. Investigating the Communist regime’s mass imprisonment of Muslims, and its use and testing of sophisticated surveillance technology against the population.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows the charismatic Qi Moxiang, a former boxing star and state coach who recruits young fighting talent from the impoverished farms and villages across Sichuan province. A select few boys (and girls) are sent to national training centers, with the hope of discovering China's next Olympic heroes. But will these potential boxing champions leave it all behind to be the next Mike Tyson? Their rigorous training, teenage trials and...
14) China Dolls
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
China Dolls is a stylish and moving portrayal of gay Asian-Australians and their often difficult journeys to self-acceptance. Filmmaker Tony Ayres explores the relationship between race and sexuality, taking us into the unfamiliar world of “rice queens”, “potato queens”, “bananas” and “sticky rice”. In the gay scene, the young and beautiful possess the greatest social power. But what is considered desirable is also influenced by race....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
A big principle of socialism is equality, but China's new society has glaring inequalities. The communist party calls it "socialism with Chinese characteristics" but, in the rush for growth, have they created a society far harsher than western capitalism? COMMUNISM COMES TO IKEA The new China now has a growing middle class with the same aspirations as their western counterparts - they want good schools, a good apartment, holidays, a decent retirement...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While China is an economic superpower, its cheap-labor advantage is ending; its air and water are polluted; and its society is fractured by rich and poor. How can China achieve its goal of becoming a moderately well off society in a world of turbulent markets and a society of social disparities?
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tai A Chau is home for both farmers and fishermen who use the island as a permanent harborfor their small floating homes. The daily routines of Mr. Wong, a fisherman, and Mr. Ng, a farmer, are representative of their respective problems of survival, mutual dependence, and hopes for the future.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Following the Opium War of 1842, a range of Chinese seaports were opened to foreign trade and foreign residence. Learn about the colorful history of these ports, how they became enmeshed in a global labor trade, and how they functioned as Euro-Asian hybrid cities. Grasp how the treaty ports were emblematic of a period of economic and political domination by foreigners.
Publisher
Film Ideas
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Host Robert Lawrence Kuhn, who knows China's leaders personally and wrote the book How China's Leaders Think, takes us inside China through five documentaries that reveal the critical issues that China's new leaders face. China's Challenges focuses on current issues including China's economy, society, innovation, politics and values. These documentaries provide real insight into the difficulties and challenges that have arisen from China's soaring...
20) Death by China
Publisher
Virgil Films and Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From best-selling author and filmmaker Peter Navarro comes Death by China, a documentary feature confronting the most urgent problem facing America - its increasingly destructive trade relationship with a rapidly rising China. Since the United States fully opened its markets to China in 2001, over 50,000 American factories have disappeared, more than 25 million Americans can’t find a decent job, and America now owes over 3 trillion dollars to the...
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