Outreach
Video Lending Library
China
- Program Title: A Thousand Kilometers Beyond the Yellow River
- EASC Code: CS-12
- Series Title: Silk Road, The: An Ancient World of Adventure
- Region/Country: China
- Language: English
- Subtitles:
- Subject: Travel, Archaeology
- Program Type: Documentary
- Media Type: VHS
- Director:
- Producer: NHK
- Release Date: 1990
- Running Time: 55 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: "[In this episode] you will leave Xi-an and cross the Yellow River on a goat-skin raft. You will gaze in awe at the giant Buddha at Bing-li-si, and enter the secret caves, never before filmed by a television crew. You will traverse the forbidding He-xi Corridor, a long and narrow defile between the Qi-lian Mountains and the Gobbi Desert. This former battleground of the Huns was bitterly conquered by the Chinese for its real treasure - the Heavenly Western Horses which gave the Huns their fearsome military power. You will stroll the streets of the citadel town of Zhang-ye, and visit the Nie-pan Buddha, already two hundred years old when Marco Polo lived here in the fourteenth century."
- Data Entry Date: 5/12/1999
