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The 156-meter flood-level marker in Qu Kou village, China, Photo: Yung Chang
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Apr 25, 2008 – May 8, 2008
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$11.50
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Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam, where the now-plugged Yangtze river is radically redefining the country's geographic landscape. For Up the Yangtze, director Yung Chang spent 2006 filming life aboard a luxury cruise ship to explore how the waterway's new course is also redefining its surrounding social and emotional landscape. The film's focus — an impoverished peasant girl sent to work while her family flees the rising water — conveys the contradictory implications of the massive project. Chang's sparse narration leaves room for the human drama to unfold against the backdrop of the ominous dam.
