Anyone who travels to an underdeveloped country has to confront the conflict between the desire for an “authentic” view of the countrypreferably with Arcadian vistas and unadulterated cultural ...

Up the Yangtze is perfect counter-programming to the pomp and circumstance of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, an incisive and humane look at the emergence of China as a world power through the eyes of ...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Yung Chang’s interview for his doc “Up the Yangtze” first appeared in indieWIRE as part of our profiles of first-time feature directors with films debuting at the 2008 Sundance Film ...

MONTREAL — The top-grossing English-Canadian film this month is a documentary about the impact of the giant Three Gorges Dam project in China. In fact, the description English-Canadian is a bit of a ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a daily December series that will feature new or previously published interviews and profiles of some of the year’s best filmmakers, writers, actors and actresses. My ...

The idea for “Up the Yangtze” came to Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang when he took a cruise upon the great Chinese river with his parents and grandfather in 2002. Already, the river was changing, the ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan – In time for the Beijing Olympics, Up the Yangtze documents a journey into the heart of the Chinese Dream. With her family on the verge of becoming environmental refugees, Yu ...

”The river knows everything,” the Nobel Prize winning author Herman Hesse once wrote. ”One can learn everything from it.” Up the Yangtze, director Yung Chang’s lovely, engrossing documentary largely ...

“Up the Yangtze” sounds like one of those old travel films that played in theaters before cable TV became the province of international tourist pictures. And, in part, that’s just what Canadian ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The damming of the Yangtze River in central China is the most transformative feat of engineering in history. When it is completed ...