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China: One Child Policy
produced by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2006), 23 mins
In 1980, the Communist Government of China instituted a policy of one child per family as a means of curtailing population growth. Now, the success or failure of this highly controversial social experiment can be assessed. In this comprehensive report, correspondent John Taylor journeyed from the high rise flats o...
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produced by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2006), 23 mins
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In 1980, the Communist Government of China instituted a policy of one child per family as a means of curtailing population growth. Now, the success or failure of this highly controversial social experiment can be assessed. In this comprehensive report, correspondent John Taylor journeyed from the high rise flats of middle class Beijing to the poor farms of the Chinese countryside to see the effect of this policy. Population growth has been slowed...
In 1980, the Communist Government of China instituted a policy of one child per family as a means of curtailing population growth. Now, the success or failure of this highly controversial social experiment can be assessed. In this comprehensive report, correspondent John Taylor journeyed from the high rise flats of middle class Beijing to the poor farms of the Chinese countryside to see the effect of this policy. Population growth has been slowed, but this success has come at enormous social cost. Many families have suffered greatly under the policy, from forced abortions to political coercion and heavy fines. Liu Shuling, a poor farmer's wife with two children says: "After having one baby, when people tried to have a second one, if you didn't have money, they would pull down your house. If they didn't pull down your house, they would take away your timber and your horse carts." The policy has also given birth to an alarming imbalance between the sexes. For every 100 girls there are 120 boys. Traditionally, Chinese parents have preferred sons - because they support them in their old age and carry on the family name. Many couples have turned to ultrasound machines to guarantee they get the type of child they desire. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of female foetuses have been aborted. China is also becoming a nation of children without siblings. There is now a real concern that the One Child Policy has created a generation of spoilt children - so-called "little emperors and empresses." College Adult
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Demographics, Family, Humanities
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2006. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Interesting Times, 1, The Secret of My Success
produced by TV 2/Denmark, British Broadcasting Corporation and ARTE, in Interesting Times, 1 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 1 hour 5 mins
We meet Lu Guo Hua, a wheeler dealer who uses his position as birth control officer to be the local political power broker. When the village head chastizes him for overlooking a villager's third pregnancy, Lu Guo Hua retaliates by opposing the village head's re-election. The film gives an insider's view of the beg...
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produced by TV 2/Denmark, British Broadcasting Corporation and ARTE, in Interesting Times, 1 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 1 hour 5 mins
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We meet Lu Guo Hua, a wheeler dealer who uses his position as birth control officer to be the local political power broker. When the village head chastizes him for overlooking a villager's third pregnancy, Lu Guo Hua retaliates by opposing the village head's re-election. The film gives an insider's view of the beginnings of democratic politics in a village in northeastern . College Adult
Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
TV 2/Denmark, British Broadcasting Corporation, ARTE
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Series
Interesting Times
Topic / Theme
Politics, Humanities
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2003. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Interesting Times, 3, Xiao's Long March
directed by Wu Gong, in Interesting Times, 3 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 40 mins
China has a standing army of more than one million men. For eighteen year old Xiao Zhenning, a poor boy from a provincial town, unemployed and fed up with life in his parents' two room apartment, the Red Army is a place of last resort. As Xiao says ruefully: "With no college education and no job, there is nowhere...
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directed by Wu Gong, in Interesting Times, 3 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 40 mins
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China has a standing army of more than one million men. For eighteen year old Xiao Zhenning, a poor boy from a provincial town, unemployed and fed up with life in his parents' two room apartment, the Red Army is a place of last resort. As Xiao says ruefully: "With no college education and no job, there is nowhere else to go." The film follows Xiao through his last listless days with his nagging parents in their tiny apartment and into his three m...
China has a standing army of more than one million men. For eighteen year old Xiao Zhenning, a poor boy from a provincial town, unemployed and fed up with life in his parents' two room apartment, the Red Army is a place of last resort. As Xiao says ruefully: "With no college education and no job, there is nowhere else to go." The film follows Xiao through his last listless days with his nagging parents in their tiny apartment and into his three months basic training with the Red Army. He learns things about himself and his "place" in China's so called classless society, which both surprise, upset and ultimately liberate him. College Adult
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Wu Gong
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Series
Interesting Times
Topic / Theme
Armed forces, Humanities
Copyright Message
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Interesting Times, 4, This Happy Life
directed by Jiang Yue, in Interesting Times, 4 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 1 hour
Mr. Fu is head of passenger affairs at Zhengzhou, one of China's busiest railroad stations. His working life is chaotic and his private life traumatic. His first wife died as a result of a compulsory abortion, enforced by China's one child policy, leaving Mr. Fu to bring up their eighteen month-old baby son himsel...
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directed by Jiang Yue, in Interesting Times, 4 (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2003), 1 hour
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Mr. Fu is head of passenger affairs at Zhengzhou, one of China's busiest railroad stations. His working life is chaotic and his private life traumatic. His first wife died as a result of a compulsory abortion, enforced by China's one child policy, leaving Mr. Fu to bring up their eighteen month-old baby son himself. His second marriage is an unhappy one and during the filming his son, now fourteen years old, decides to leave him and join the army...
Mr. Fu is head of passenger affairs at Zhengzhou, one of China's busiest railroad stations. His working life is chaotic and his private life traumatic. His first wife died as a result of a compulsory abortion, enforced by China's one child policy, leaving Mr. Fu to bring up their eighteen month-old baby son himself. His second marriage is an unhappy one and during the filming his son, now fourteen years old, decides to leave him and join the army. This intimate portrait of Mr. Fu and his colleagues is tragic, deeply moving and sometimes hilarious. College Adult
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Author / Creator
Jiang Yue
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Series
Interesting Times
Topic / Theme
Employment, Family, Humanities
Copyright Message
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North Korea: The Big Dream
(London, England: SW Pictures, 2010), 39 mins
It’s probably the world’s most secretive country. We take a peak inside, seeing the secrecy and propaganda surrounding a country that is famous not only for the awful living conditions of its citizens, but also for challenging the world with its nuclear programme. We visit North Korea under the vigilant eye of...
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(London, England: SW Pictures, 2010), 39 mins
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It’s probably the world’s most secretive country. We take a peak inside, seeing the secrecy and propaganda surrounding a country that is famous not only for the awful living conditions of its citizens, but also for challenging the world with its nuclear programme. We visit North Korea under the vigilant eye of the authorities, which accompany the team on a route visiting the symbolic sites of the world’s last real socialist regime. Half a c...
It’s probably the world’s most secretive country. We take a peak inside, seeing the secrecy and propaganda surrounding a country that is famous not only for the awful living conditions of its citizens, but also for challenging the world with its nuclear programme. We visit North Korea under the vigilant eye of the authorities, which accompany the team on a route visiting the symbolic sites of the world’s last real socialist regime. Half a century after the Korean War, two decades after the end of the Cold War and with the recent memory of the great famine, the North exalts ideological purity and preaches the dream of reunification with the South. Meanwhile, as South Korean companies take advantage of the investment opportunities offered by Pyongyang, North and South Koreans alike share the 'big dream'.
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Field of Study
Asian Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
SW Pictures
Topic / Theme
Korea and its Borders, Political boundaries, Totalitarianism, International relations, International trade, Politics & Policy, Humanities, North Koreans, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2011. Used by permission of Scott White Pictures.
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On China, Chinese Explorers
produced by Cable News Network (CNN), in On China (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2013), 22 mins
From the deepest corners of the ocean to outer space, China's explorers are putting their names and the world's newest superpower on the map. But the country's new commitment to exploration is extending inwards as well.
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produced by Cable News Network (CNN), in On China (Atlanta, GA: Cable News Network (CNN), 2013), 22 mins
Description
From the deepest corners of the ocean to outer space, China's explorers are putting their names and the world's newest superpower on the map. But the country's new commitment to exploration is extending inwards as well.
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Panel discussion
Contributor
Kristie Lu Stout, 1974-, Mei Zhang, fl. 2010, Wong How Man, 1949-, Xiao Yuan, fl. 2013, Cable News Network (CNN)
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Cable News Network (CNN)
Series
On China
Topic / Theme
Chinese, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Prehistory to Early Civilizations (Up to 1000 BCE)
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Copyright © 2012 CNN Newsource Sales
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Panorama, Series 64, Episode 25, Inside North Korea
directed by Natalie Morton, fl. 2016; presented by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, 1967-; produced by Maria Byrne, fl. 2016, Nikki Stockley, fl. 1993-2013 and Natalie Morton, fl. 2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Panorama, Series 64, Episode 25 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2016), 30 mins
In May 2016, BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes was expelled from North Korea for showing disrespect and 'distorting facts'. He now tells the full story of his visit to the country and explores what his detention and interrogation by senior Korean officials say about this secretive state. Rupert investigates the...
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directed by Natalie Morton, fl. 2016; presented by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, 1967-; produced by Maria Byrne, fl. 2016, Nikki Stockley, fl. 1993-2013 and Natalie Morton, fl. 2016, British Broadcasting Corporation, in Panorama, Series 64, Episode 25 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2016), 30 mins
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In May 2016, BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes was expelled from North Korea for showing disrespect and 'distorting facts'. He now tells the full story of his visit to the country and explores what his detention and interrogation by senior Korean officials say about this secretive state. Rupert investigates the apparent upturn in the North Korean economy and asks if the signs of improvement in the capital Pyongyang are real? He also examines wh...
In May 2016, BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes was expelled from North Korea for showing disrespect and 'distorting facts'. He now tells the full story of his visit to the country and explores what his detention and interrogation by senior Korean officials say about this secretive state. Rupert investigates the apparent upturn in the North Korean economy and asks if the signs of improvement in the capital Pyongyang are real? He also examines whether the people there are genuinely loyal to their young leader or whether Kim Jong Un is ruling by reign of terror.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Maria Byrne, fl. 2016, Nikki Stockley, fl. 1993-2013, Natalie Morton, fl. 2016, British Broadcasting Corporation
Author / Creator
Natalie Morton, fl. 2016, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, 1967-
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Panorama
Person Discussed
Kim Jong-un
Topic / Theme
Communism, Economic conditions, Journalists, Government policy, Censorship, Political and Social Movements, North Koreans, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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Copyright © 2016 BBC Worldwide
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Two Doors = 두 개의 문
directed by Ji-you Hong and Kim Il-rahn, 1972-; produced by DMZ Docs Fund (South Korea: CinemaDAL, 2012), 1 hour 41 mins
This documentary is about the long battle over the truth on the Yongsan tragedy of 2009; that killed five evictees, one policeman and how the other protesters who survived the riot, are now facing prison term.
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directed by Ji-you Hong and Kim Il-rahn, 1972-; produced by DMZ Docs Fund (South Korea: CinemaDAL, 2012), 1 hour 41 mins
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This documentary is about the long battle over the truth on the Yongsan tragedy of 2009; that killed five evictees, one policeman and how the other protesters who survived the riot, are now facing prison term.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
DMZ Docs Fund
Author / Creator
Ji-you Hong, Kim Il-rahn, 1972-
Date Published / Released
2012
Publisher
CinemaDAL
Topic / Theme
Political violence, Riots, Political demonstrations, Demolition, Urbanization, Korean
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012 by CinemaDAL
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