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  1. Water Crisis II: Cyprus, China, Spain (2009)

    Subject
    Environmental science; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 41 minutes), £97.00

    Three films highlight water shortages across the world. Film 1: Inner Mongolia has long been one of China’s driest regions; Film 2: In Spain the government is trying to solve its shortage by pumping water...

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  2. Number 24 Beizongbu Hutong: Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin’s Former Residence (2009)

    Subject
    Architecture; Geography

    This documentary displays the dilapidated state of the former 20th Century hutong residence of Mr. Liang Sicheng and his wife Ms. Lin Huiyin in Beijing. The couple were among China’s most famous art and...

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  3. Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)

    Director
    Jeremy Bristow
    Subject
    Agriculture; Environmental science; Geography

    Parts of China’s Loess Plateau, the highland area spanning some 640,000 square km in the north of the country, faced environmental ruin as over-farming took its toll on the ecosystem. In this film...

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  4. Ou Lecture 2008: The Impact of China on Development (2008)

    Subject
    Development studies; Economics

    Professor Raphael Kaplinsky explores the impact on international development of the rise of the Asian drivers in general - and China in particular - and what implications this has for development strategy...

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  5. Up the Yangtze (2008)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 93 minutes), £14.99

    The Three Gorges Dam, the largest engineering project since the Great Wall and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for UP THE YANGTZE, a dramatic...

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  6. Two Versions of Hell (2008)

    Director
    James T Hong
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 27 minutes), $295.00

    This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan’s secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during...

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  7. Chinese Schools (2008)

    aka: Chinese School

    Subject
    Education; Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £17.00

    Documentary series about the hopes and dreams of a group of children at three schools in the small Chinese town of Xiuning, in rural Anhui. The programmes focus on the lives of a group of families, teachers...

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  8. Art of Regret, The (2008)

    Director
    Judith MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology; Art; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Photography is known in China as the "Art of Regret". In the rapidly changing city of Kunming, people are ambivalent about whether they want photography to be a medium of preservation and evidence, or of...

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  9. Great Wall of China, The (2008)

    aka: Great Wall

    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 120 minutes), £17.99

    This two-hour drama-doc traces the story of the building of the Great Wall in its latest, greatest guise - the colossal brick structure that that everyone recognises as the Wall, from the terror of...

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  10. Secrets of the Forbidden City (2008)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Architecture; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £14.99

    Using the latest archaeological and historical discoveries, combined with state of the art CGI and dramatic reconstructions, ‘Secrets Of The Forbidden City’ tells the story of the creation of Ming...

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