Up the Yangtze

• 7.333 Documentary
• 2007-09-30
• 93 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Campbell Ping He (himself) Jerry Bo Yu Chen (himself) Cindy Shui Yu (herself) Yung Chang (Narrator)

Director:

Yung Chang

Writer:

Yung Chang