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China: modern cities in a middle aged society; ruled by communists with capitalist ambitions. The money is supposed to trickle down all the way to the simple peasant, but the $$ never gets there. If you don't have anything to bribe the authorities with, good luck. As a documentary, I didn't find ‘Up the Yangtze. To be very informative or well researched. Yes, it has sad scenes and you get to 'feel' the difference between the old and the new Chinese generations. While tourists are eating well, the poor almost starve by the river. Wonder how I will feel next time I'm in the Dominican Republic. Overall, worth at best 6½, but wait t'ill it plays on the discovery channel.
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To give this movie a low rating because the Chinese government doesn't look after its people is to totally miss the fact this is a movie, not a Chinese government-sponsored propaganda piece. Boy did you miss the boat!!
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Click here to show this comment. Hey dude (acasa@ - age: 50+) can't you read: 'As a documentary, I didn't find ‘Up the Yangtze' to be very informative or well researched'. Most of the film is about a poor teen that gets a job on a tourist boat while her family is struggling to survive by the river. This is supposed to be a documentary about the Yangtze hydro dam, I actually didn't learn much here. So there, you get a 6/10…boring.