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| Jen |
Posted - Aug 29 2007 : 12:33:02 PM
Never been there, but it just looks awesome...
Part of Yangze river, located between Chongqing and Yichang, China.(CC)
Source: http://www.enn.com/iotd2.html?id=909
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| Jen |
Posted - Jun 24 2008 : 12:05:16 PM
Read this film review in a Sierra Club email. Sounds interesting...
Up the Yangtze
http://www.uptheyangtze.com/
Written, directed, and narrated by Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang, Up the Yangtze explores the human impact of China’s enormous Three Gorges Dam Project on China’s largest river. The 600 ft. tall dam is on track to become the world’s largest hydroelectric power station in 2011. If all goes according to plan, the river's altered course will have displaced about 2 million people by then. Up the Yangtze focuses on the lives of Chinese citizens whose lives have already been changed by the rising waters. It follows one poor family that built a hut and subsistence farm along the riverbank after being flooded out of their home elsewhere on the Yangtze.
With illiterate parents who can’t afford to send her to college, the family’s oldest child, a 16-year-old girl, must work aboard a ship that takes American and European tourists on so-called “farewell cruises” of the Yangtze. She takes on the western name “Cindy” upon boarding the vessel, and works side by side with teens from relatively wealthy families.
In tracing Cindy’s struggle to adapt to this wildly different culture, the film also takes viewers on a farewell journey of the river. Shots of precipitous slopes rising unnaturally out of a flooded valley and the pale haze present in every scene remind us that China's explosive development has altered the lives of millions as much as the environment. More importantly, we catch a glimpse of the shifting ground where these two -- people and planet -- meet. Few films have shown this more clearly than Chang's Up the Yangtze.
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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| Jen |
Posted - Jun 05 2008 : 07:25:36 AM
Exactly!!
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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| Libbie |
Posted - May 23 2008 : 11:57:59 AM
Isn't it amazing how rewarding it can be to just whip out the right knot when you need it - or be able to easily put up a gate that's fallen... Karen and Jen - don't you feel like each little bit of "farmgirl" knowledge you learn gives you the confidence to learn more? I love how that works - I see it in my kids, and now that I take a look, I see it in myself, too.
XOXO, Libbie
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| Jen |
Posted - May 20 2008 : 09:38:58 AM
I agree, Karen. And it's eerie to think about the potential consequences of all of this hog-wild industrialization. I'm just glad to possess (and continue to learn) all of those important little "real life" skills - no petrochemicals needed!
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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| MS Farmgirl |
Posted - May 20 2008 : 09:23:07 AM
Check out the May issue of National Geographic. It's all about China. I just read where the country is experiencing the largest mass migration in its history ----150 million people are moving from the country into the cities. Hard to imagine, huh?
The photography of the country is stunning as usual for NG. I can't help but think of the recent earthquake and wonder with the modernization of the country, how many Chinese still possess skills that allow them to live close to the land? Since living in the country, I value every little knowledge...how to tie a good knot, a good tool, encouraging my garden to grow.
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| Libbie |
Posted - May 06 2008 : 09:28:02 AM
Have any of you read the story of "Ping" the duck? It's a children's book that I just loved, and recently bought for my boys. It's about a duck who lives on a "wise-eyed boat in the yellow waters of the Yangtze river. It's definitely worth checking out...
Wouldn't that be an amazing river to float/run? Oh, there are just SO many wild and beautiful places in this world!
XOXO, Libbie
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| CountryintheBurbs |
Posted - Sep 05 2007 : 10:23:42 AM
Wow, that looks like a wild adventure! |
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