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China blue / director and producer, Micha X. Peled ; a co-production of Teddy Bear Films and the Independent Television Service (ITVS).
LIBRA DVD 025 483
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women clothing workers--China.
- Women clothing workers.
- Women employees--China.
- Women employees.
- Jeans (Clothing)--China.
- Jeans (Clothing).
- Clothing trade--China.
- Clothing trade.
- Work environment--China.
- Work environment.
- Sweatshops--China.
- Sweatshops.
- China.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Container title also in Chinese: Zhongguo zheng lan
- Place of Publication:
- Oley, PA : Bullfrog FIlms, [2005]
- Language Note:
- Dialogues mainly in Chinese, with some English; subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- This documentary visits a Chinese blue-jean factory, where workers are trying to survive a harsh working environment. But when the factory owner agrees to a deal with his Western client that forces his teenage workers to work around the clock, a confrontation becomes inevitable.
- "Like no other film before, China Blue is a powerful and poignant journey into the harsh world of sweatshop workers. Shot clandestinely, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retailers don't want us to see: how the clothes we buy are actually made. Following a pair of denim jeans from birth to sale, China Blue links the power of the U.S. consumer market to the daily lives of a Chinese factory owner and two teenaged female factory workers. Filmed both in the factory and in the workers' faraway village, this documentary provides a rare, human glimpse at China's rapid transformation into a free market society." -- Container.
- Contents:
- Jasmine gets a job
- Mr. Lam goes to work
- Jasmine's diary
- French buyer
- Orchid dancing
- Crisis for Mr. Lam
- If you don't work hard today
- Energy tea
- Jasmine gets a stomach ache
- Everybody is mad
- Labor dispute
- New Year party
- Orchid in the village
- Jasmine sends a letter.
- Participant:
- Interviewees include Mr. Lam, Jasmine Lee, Yang Ching, Dr. Liu Kaiming.
- Credits:
- Associate producer/sound/translation supervisor, Song Chen ; camera, Micha X. Peled ; editor, Manuel A. Tsingaris ; composer, Miriam Cutler ; voice over readings by Zhongbao Wu and Su Guo Liang ; translation consultant, Bonny Lin ; Chinese dialect translation, Dr. Liang Song, Joanne Lee, Xin Yae, Shihling Ming, Dr. Wenli Wang, Ming Ji Hong, Ting Louie.
- Notes:
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
- Special features: Q & A with director; additional scenes; promotional film for Lifeng Factory; trailer; photo gallery; contact info.
- Winner, Micha X. Peled, 2005 Amnesty International - DOEN Award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Althea Hottel and Abraham S. Hottel, Jr. Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1594585288
- 9781594585289
- OCLC:
- 76032402
- Publisher Number:
- 761326528820
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