Up the Yangtze
Up the Yangtze

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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 insi... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Up the Yangtze:

Campbell Ping He
Jerry Bo Yu Chen
Cindy Shui Yu
Yung Chang

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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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Boston Globe - 10/10 by Ty BurrIn his masterful and haunting documentary Up the Yangtze, Yung Chang shows the old China drowning helplessly under the weight of the new.
San Francisco Chronicle - 10/10 by G. Allen JohnsonWhat Chinese Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang achieves in his documentary Up the Yangtze is remarkable.
Philadelphia Weekly - 9/10 by Sean BurnsThis, the film argues, is the way of the future: One form of poverty-stricken squalor replaced by a tackier, more plasticized life of similarly deadend subservience, all in the guise of economic progress.
BrianOrndorf.com - 9/10 by Brian OrndorfA searing lament for China and the eradication of its historic farming culture, Yangtze is a stunning documentary that details every gut-churning step of inevitability.
MovieFreak.com - 9/10 by Sara Michelle FettersIn doing so he photographs a landscape and country going through profound change on an almost unimaginable scale, all of it building to a final scene that's chilling in its Joseph Conrad-like uncertainty.
TV Guide - 9/10 by Ken FoxMay be the best film to date about the humanitarian and environmental impact of China's enormous Three Gorges Dam project.
Film-Forward.com - 9/10 by Nora Lee MandelVery visually documents the human cost of the abrupt changes in the Chinese economy, and intimately into the sociological changes wrought by the astounding Three Gorges Dam.
KPBS.org - 9/10 by Beth AccomandoUp the Yangtze is a beautifully crafted documentary. Chang displays artistry in the way he assembles his material. He captures China at a crossroads where he finds both guarded hope and epic sadness.
New York Press - 9/10 by Raphaela WeissmanWith all these lyrical elements in play, [director Yung] Chang's extraneous voiceover narration is baffling, and all but unbearable.
rec.arts.movies.reviews - 9/10 by Louis ProyectModernization is a double-edged sword as this superb documentary illustrates.

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