Following the construction of the dam, approximately two million people throughout the China’s annual Spring Festival migration - when millions of Chinese people head to their hometowns to celebrate the holidays - is widely reported on in the Western media (complete with mind-boggling statistics) but often these reports fail to give the phenomenon a human edge.
A six-part series co-produced by the BBC and China Central Television, Prepare for your mouth to start watering when you watch The Three Gorges Dam is one of China’s modern man-made wonders but its success didn’t come without a price. From among the country’s 130 million migrant workers, director Lixin Fan zooms in on the Zhangs, a poor family from rural Sichuan, who epitomizes the harsh realities many migrants face. General Magic (2018) - Trailer for a documentary about a start-up that tried to build the smartphone in the 90's and failed. Why do we call Beijing, Xi'an, and Shanghai "the Golden Triangle?" The documentary looks at five years in the life of an upstate New Yorker named Kathy Murphy, whose acquisition and insistence on keeping 200 chicken, turkeys, ducks, and geese at … "They had some misunderstandings about the epidemic in China. It has been translated into Chinese and viewed more than 10 million times on Chinese social media platform Weibo alone. Winner of the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence Six Years in a Row
"After his quarantine period ended, instead of standing idle at home, Takeuchi decided to go out and filmed a documentary recording the daily lives of ordinary people in Nanjing amid the outbreak, helping the Japanese public learn about the measures taken by China to curb the spread of COVID-19.During the shooting, he visited a fast-food chain, where a "no-contact card" with the name and health condition of the cook was attached to the takeout bags to reassure customers.When he took taxis, he found the vehicles had been equipped with protective plastic films to avoid cross-infection between drivers and passengers in the back seats.Takeuchi admired the city's resolute and powerful efforts to combat the virus and the remarkable results achieved.So far, Nanjing has seen no new confirmed COVID-19 cases for more than 20 consecutive days and all the confirmed patients had been discharged from hospitals after recovery.Takeuchi and his crew completed the documentary in just four days, including planning, filming and editing.Once released on March 2, the 10-minute documentary garnered tens of millions of hits on Japanese sharing platforms and had sparked wide discussion online.
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The series touches on several different aspects of school life, including class monitor elections, moral and political education, and, for the older children, the pressure to perform in exams and secure a place at a good university. It also touches on the effects of rural-urban migration on the children left behind in the villages. 55.0k votes, 6.6k comments.
NANJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Ryo Takeuchi, a Japanese director now living in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, never expected the documentary he made amid the novel coronavirus outbreak would go viral in both Japan and China. They just saw the figures and thought the death rate wasn't high," he said. "As long as the documentary is seen by people in Japan and even more countries, and arouses their attention and thinking, my goal is achieved," said Takeuchi.To his surprise, the documentary, which was made for Japanese people, has also become a hit in China. This is the most popular one," the 42-year-old director said.In 2013, Takeuchi followed his Chinese wife, whom he met in Japan, to settle down in her hometown of Nanjing. I have seen a lot of fucked up shit on the Internet, but that video was easily the most cruel thing I'd ever seen.
"In fact, the relatively low death rate is due to the fact that tens of thousands of Chinese medical workers were mobilized and dispatched to the front lines and millions of Chinese people have made great sacrifices. "It seems that even many Chinese people don't know as much about the details in their cities," wrote some Chinese netizens.Takeuchi said some English subtitle groups have contacted him with a desire to translate the documentary.Takeuchi is also the director of the internet documentary series "The Reason I Live Here," which chronicled Chinese living abroad and foreigners who live in China, including a wide variety of Japanese citizens. They started a company that specializes in short video shooting and production and is engaged in cultural exchanges between China and Japan.In mid-February, Takeuchi returned to Nanjing from Japan on a business trip and began a two-week quarantine.At first, he was uncomfortable to be kept in isolation and wondered "if it was too much. PS: Please don't give me awards. Disclaimer!
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