Chinese president XI Jinping has named it the ‘project of the century.’ Since 2013 China has invested billions into bringing the ‘Middle Kingdom’ to the forefront of global economics and international politics. What China has baptised ’The New Silk Road’ allows…
Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime, but Zhao Xiaoyong has sold over 90,000 copies of van Gogh’s paintings in the past 20 years. Living in China, the world’s fastest developing country, Zhao has been through great transitions. First from a peasant to a rural migrant…
Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime, but Zhao Xiaoyong has sold over 90,000 copies of van Gogh’s paintings in the past 20 years. Living in China, the world’s fastest developing country, Zhao has been through great transitions. First from a peasant to a rural migrant worker.…
China’s controversial one child policy may have been abandoned but the forced abortions and sterilizations and harsh punishments for unauthorized pregnancies continue. It remains illegal to have a child outside wedlock, become pregnant under the age of 20 or have more than two children. China holds…
CHINA, THE UIGHUR TRAGEDY • A film by ROMAIN FRANKLIN et FRANCOIS REINHARDT • Directed by FRANCOIS REINHARDT • Produced by MYRTO GRECOS & FABRICE ESTEVE • A coproduction by DECOUPAGES & YUZU PRODUCTIONS • in coproduction with ARTE G.E.I.E. •With the participation…
China’s repression of the Uighur population and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang is akin to genocide: more than a million people are being arbitrarily detained in camps where they undergo torture, re-education, forced labour and are banned from speaking their own language. Children are also…
(1 hr. version) Shot clandestinely in China, under difficult conditions, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retail companies don’t want us to see – how the clothes we buy are actually made. China Blue takes us inside a blue-jeans factory, where two teenage…
Réalisé par Thomas Licata et Hugo Brilmaker. La petite ville de Datong se transforme, suivant le chemin de la grande histoire chinoise. Les jeunes y travaillent dur, visant le ciel, la tradition disparaît face à l’urbanisme moderne et rien n’arrête l’avancée…
“China Gate" tells the story of young Chinese fight to change their fate through studying. Right before dawn, students in Huining have already started their studying session; hard working youngsters have filled up the space of school ground. This is one of the most poverty-stricken Counties…
Part of a four part series on the changes taking place in China and the effects on individual people, presented by Glenda Jackson. The Chinese love of music and dance is part of an ancient history. Today they share a long and treasured relationship with Yehudi Menuhin, who has great admiration for…
Part of a four part series on the changes taking place in China and the effects on individual people, presented by Glenda Jackson. Life expectancy in 1949 was 35 years, today it is almost 70. China has developed a unique collaboration between those manning its health services and the Chinese people,…
Part of a four part series on the changes taking place in China and the effects on individual people, presented by Glenda Jackson. Glenda Jackson visits Chinese houses, schools, nurseries, kindergartens, factories, market places and hospitals, in the cities and the countryside, to find out the implication…
