up the yangtze

Director: yung chang

Actor: jerry bo yu chen,campbell ping he,cindy shui yu

Data Published: Fri Jul 11 2008

Genres: Documentary

Key Words: china,three gorges dam,hydroelectric dam,cruise ship,yangtze river

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1114277/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_the_Yangtze

Description: Up the Yangtze is a movie starring Jerry Bo Yu Chen, Campbell Ping He, and Cindy Shui Yu. At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they...

Plot: The setting of the film is a riverboat cruise ship floating up the Yangtze river. Two young people are the focus of the film as they work aboard the ship. One is a sixteen-year-old girl from a particularly poor family living on the banks of the Yangtze near Fengdu, named "Cindy" Yu Shui. She is followed as she leaves her family to work on one of the cruise ships serving wealthy western tourists at the same time as her family is being forced from their home due to the flooding that accompanied the building of the dam. The film shows her acclimatization to the consumer economy of tourism as well as modern technology of the cruise ships, juxtaposed with her family and other older citizens who are displaced from a rural lifestyle to cities where they must pay for the vegetables they used to grow on their own. The other main subject is a nineteen-year-old boy from a more prosperous family named "Jerry" Chen Bo Yu. Chen Bo Yu shows a different perspective from Yu Shui as he tries to earn cash on the ship as a porter and singer. The film is rich in detail about ways of life, dreams, and aspirations, and seeks to provide a view into the reality of modern Chinese life.