Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Sneak Preview of UP THE YANGTZE at the MFA
with director Yung Chang in attendance

Presented at 7 pm, with Q&A session with the director following the screening.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Remis Auditorium

In the biggest engineering endeavor since the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, the Three Gorges Dam project will be the largest hydroelectric power station in the world when complete. At the river’s edge, Yu Shui says goodbye to her family and turns to face the future. From their small patch of land, her parents watch the young woman walk away, her belongings clutched in a plastic shopping bag. The gargantuan and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic and disquieting feature documentary on life inside the twenty-first-century Chinese dream. Drawing inspiration from contemporary Asian cinema and post-war neo-realism, Chang crafts a compassionate account of peasant life and a powerful documentary narrative of contemporary China.

Official Website: http://www.mfa.org/calendar/index.asp?keywords=Up+the+Yangtze&category=&collection=&cal_language=&week=

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