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  1. Forbidden Voices: How to Start a Revolution with a Computer (2013)

    Director
    Miller Freeman plc
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 96 minutes), $395.00

    Documentary about three young women who use social media to document, denounce and combat violations of human rights and free speech in their countries. Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are...

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  2. Waking the Green Tiger (2012)

    Director
    Gary Marcuse
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 78 minutes), C$250.00

    Seen through the eyes of activists, farmers, and journalists Waking the Green Tiger follows an extraordinary campaign to stop a huge dam project on the upper Yangtze river in southwestern China. Featuring...

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  3. China: The Long March - Historic 1986 TV Expedition (2012)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 48 minutes), $7.49

    China was only just opening up to the west when this Sydney Australia TV crew were given access, uprecedented to foreigners until that date, to document, film and photograph the entire epic 8,000 mile length...

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  4. China: Triumph and Turmoil (2012)

    Subject
    Economics; Geography; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

    Three part documentary series in which Niall Ferguson explores China’s position as an emerging economic superpower, and its subsequent relationship with the rest of the world. He travels through China...

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  5. Ka-Ching Dynasty, The (2012)

    Subject
    Business studies; Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    The economic transformation of China has been electrifying. But with Europe teetering and the US plodding can the biggest tiger of all keep on roaring? China’s super-rich certainly think they can and...

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  6. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)

    Director
    Alison Klayman
    Subject
    Art; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

    Beijing-based American journalist Alison Klayman directs this feature-length documentary about the life and work of Chinese contemporary artist and political activist Ai Weiwei. The film begins in 2009 as Ai...

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  7. When China Met Africa (2011)

    Director
    Marc Francis; Nick Francis
    Producer
    Miriana Bojic Walter
    Subject
    Economics; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £14.99

    Marc Francis’ documentary film explores the expanding footprint of China’s rising global power; in particular how the historic meeting of fifty African heads of state in Beijing, affected the lives of...

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  8. When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (2010)

    Director
    Dirk Simon
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 minutes), £19.99

    Dirk Simon’s film about the history of the Tibetan people’s struggle for freedon begins in 1950: the Tibet was incorporated by the People’s Republic of China. In 1959, following the Tibetan Rebellion,...

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  9. Trip to Asia (2009)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £19.99

    Documenting THE BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA’s tour of Asia, including their first performance in China since 1979, THOMAS GRUBE’s extraordinary film offers privileged access to one of the world’s...

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  10. China’s Capitalist Revolution (2009)

    Producer
    Robert Coldsream
    Subject
    Economics; History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £330.00

    This programme tells the little-known story of Deng Xiaoping, the successor to Chairman Mao who attempted to start opening up the country to the West and introduce capitalist principles to the Chinese. When...

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