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Beyond the clouds

Beyond the clouds

DVD 2009

Filmmaker Phil Agland reveals the everyday drama and passion of contemporary China, a country "steeped in tradition and wracked by change," by focussing on life in one small town. Interwoven throughout the four segments of this documentary are the stories of a gang fight, in which one boy is killed, and the subsequent police investigation; a hill country teacher who leaves his charges temporarily in the care of a substitute while he takes a cours...

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China Rural conditions
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Description:
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
video file
DVD video
Other Title:
Title on videodiscs and containers: China : beyond the clouds
Added title in Chinese characters: Yun zhi nan
Small town in China
Sense of family
For the sake of our children
To be remembered
Notes:
Narrated by Lisa Lu
Recorded DVD
Narration in English; Chinese dialogue, English subtitles
Closed captioned
Contents:
[pt. 1]. A small town in China. A sense of family
[pt. 2]. For the sake of our children. To be remembered
Control Number:
1045587
UPC:
727994951568
Other Authors:
Agland, Phil
Ashby, Charlotte, 1979-
Channel Four (Great Britain)
Lu, Lisa
National Geographic Society (U.S.)
River Films
Studio Canal+
WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
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