Outreach
Video Lending Library
China
- Program Title: Yangtze: New China and the Old River
- EASC Code: CY-05
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: China
- Language: English, Mandarin
- Subtitles: English
- Subject: Geography
- Program Type: Documentary
- Media Type: VHS
- Director:
- Producer: Films for the Humanities and Sciences
- Release Date: 1999
- Running Time: 84 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: When the Chinese government completes the 1.2-mile Three Gorge Dam, its 370-mile reservoir is expected to partially or completely blot out 2 cities, 11 counties, 140 towns, 326 townships, and 1,351 villages. This program, filmed during the initial phase of the project, documents the lives of people who will be uprooted---and some of the finest scenery in China will be lost---when the damn is completed. Supporters of the project say that the benefits of the project far outweigh the costs, but the 1.1 million people who face resettlement disagree.
- Data Entry Date: 10/16/2003
