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  1. Trapped in the City of a Thousand Mountains (2019)

    Director
    David Verbeek
    Subject
    Music; Social Studies

    Short documentary. A new phenomenon has taken the internet by storm: Chinese rap. But behind its skyrocketing popularity, there is a struggle for freedom of speech. Rappers try to figure out what they can...

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  2. Automation, Ai and New Industrial Strategies (2018)

    Subject
    Economics; Technology

    Three online lectures about the digital transition we are currently living through and how it is different from previous technological transitions. The lectures are aimed primarily to those with a strong...

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  3. Bitter Money (2017)

    Director
    Bing Wang
    Subject
    Anthropology; Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 152 minutes), $35.000

    BITTER MONEY documents China’s rapid economic and social transformation by following the rural workers who leave their Yunnan hometown to move to the city of Huzhou, one of the busiest cities of eastern...

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  4. I See My Reputation is at Stake (2017 Audio)

    aka: Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare in China

    Producer
    Richard Paul
    Subject
    Literature; Shakespeare

    A discussion of the life and times of the 17th Century Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu who has been dubbed the Shakespeare of the East.

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  5. Around China with a Movie Camera: A Journey from Beijing to Shanghai, 1900 - 1948 (2016)

    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £11.99

    This DVD is a compilation of home movies, travelogues and newsreels, made by British and French filmmakers, from professionals to tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries. The collection...

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  6. James Joyce Goes to China (2016)

    Director
    Ian Madden
    Subject
    Drama; Literature

    Documentary following Glasgow’s Tron Theatre Company as they tour China with a stage adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses. [60 minutes]

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  7. Coming War on China, The (2016)

    Director
    John Pilger
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 130 minutes), £17.99

    John Pilger directs this documentary about a potential nuclear war between the United States of America and China. Pilger makes the case that, though the media are unlikely to tell you so, these two rival...

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  8. Apple’s Broken Promises (2015)

    Producer
    Matt Bardo; James Oliver
    Subject
    Business studies; Politics & government; Social Studies; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

    Apple Inc is a valuable brand making products that everyone wants - but how are its workers treated? The programme makers go undercover in China to show what life is like for the workers making the iPhone 6....

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  9. School That Turned Chinese, The (2015)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 3 x 50 minutes each), £585.00

    This BBC documentary series follows five teachers from China as they take over the education of 50 teenagers in a British school. After four weeks, the Chinese and British systems go head to head with the...

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  10. How China Fooled the World (2014)

    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 mins), £195.00

    Documentary discussing the fact that China is now the second largest economy in the world and for the last 30 years its economy has been growing at an astonishing rate. While the west has been in the grip of...

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