The Docuseek Asian Studies Collection
The Docuseek Asian Studies Collection includes the following titles:
Yan Yu follows BEFORE THE FLOOD with this profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1700-year-old village soon to be demolished by a hydroelectric dam project.
The residents of the historic Chinese city of Fengjie clash with officials forcing them to evacuate their homes to make way for the world's largest dam.
Wang Jiu-liang travels to more than 500 landfills, documenting Beijing's unholy cycle of consumption.
Superstar architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron must negotiate between two cultures, two architectural traditions and two political systems to build the new National Stadium for the Olympics in Beijing.
Follows a handful of migrant factory workers, both at work where they may labor for more than 12 hours a day and in their off-hours, and as they hang around shabby dorms drinking, dreaming of home, worrying about getting paid, and trying to decide whether their jobs are worth keeping.
The final film in Micha X. Peled's Globalization Trilogy examines the epidemic of suicides amongst India's cotton farmers, deeply in debt after switching to genetically modified seeds.
Examines the experiences of single mothers in South Korea, where there remains a strong social taboo against single parenthood.
The story of the Penan, a tribe of rainforest nomads in Borneo, as seen by Bruno Manser.
This creative documentary shows real-life characters recreating protest movements from Hong Kong's modern history.
The terrible aftermath of dropping cluster bombs during the secret air war in Laos and the international campaign to ban them.
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