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Bing Ai
Type: Documentary film
Running Time: 114 mins
Year of Production: 2007
Director: Feng Yan
ISBN: 978-0-9784910-0-0
Publication Date: 2007-11
Format: DVD (Color), 2 Discs
Price: CDN $25.00
Abstract: With the completion of the Three Gorges Dam, now under construction, 1.13 million people along the Yangtze River in China will have been dislocated. The majority of them are farmers. One of them, the gutsy Bing Ai, stands her ground as she clashes with government officials urging her to move. The audience will follow her seven-year struggle with officials who pressure her to relocate, while a strong devotion to her land compels her to remain in the place she calls home.
Awards & Exhibitions:
Ogawa Shinsuke Prize, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, 2007
Nominated for the Kyoto Planet Climate for Change Award, Vancouver International Film Festival, 2007
Excellence Reward, The 4th China International Documentary Film Festival, 2007

San Li Dong: Our Fathers’ Black Dreams
Type: Documentary film
Running Time: 172 mins
Year of Production: 2007
Director: Lin Xin
ISBN: 978-0-9784910-1-7
Publication Date: 2007-11
Format: DVD (Black & White), 2 Discs
Price: CDN $25.00
Abstract: This is a documentary made by the son of a miner about his father’s generation. The film records the lives of miners still living there, those who have already died, as well as an era that has almost ended. The images of the lives of these miners are testimony to their incredible tenacity and dignity.
Awards & Exhibitions:
Independent Spirit Award (the top award), 4th China Documentary Film Festival, 2007
The Top Ten Award, 4th China Independent Film Festival, 2007
Yunnan Documentary Film Festival, 2007

Chen Lu
Type: Documentary film
Running Time: 29 mins
Year of Production: 2004
Director: Lin Xin
ISBN: 978-0-9784910-2-4
Publication Date: 2007-11
Format: DVD (Color)
Price: CDN $10.00
Abstract: Chen Lu tells a story of an ancient ceramic town with almost 1000 years of history on the hinterland of the loess plateau in China.
Awards & Exhibitions:
48th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, 2005
Yunnan Multi-Culture Visual Festival, 2005
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, 2006
Pingyao lnternational Photography Festival DV Arts Exhibition, 2006

White Tower: A Deaf Man’s Love Story
Type: Documentary film
Running Time: 83 mins
Year of Production: 2003
Director: Su Qing
ISBN: 978-0-9784910-4-8
Publication Date: 2007-11
Format: DVD (Color)
Price: CDN $20.00
Abstract: This film tells a story about how a deaf Chinese man who divorced twice persistently seeks his future true love.

Social Mobility in Contemporary China
Author: Research Group for Social Structure in Contemporary China (Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
ISBN: 097367590X, 9780973675900
Publication: 2005-10
Pages: 462, including bibliographical references and index.
Format: Hardcover
Language: English, translation of Dang dai Zhongguo she hui liu dong.
Price: CDN $89.00
Abstract: This book is a best seller in China in 2004, which is the fruition of a six-year (1998~2004) research project of the top think tank in China. It presents analyses of social structure in contemporary China _base_d on two nationwide on-site surveys.

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