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Empty city : decadence of a Chinese town destined to the exemplary richness / a film by Jin Huaqing.
LIBRA DVD 030 912
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Reel China
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghost towns--China.
- Ghost towns.
- Internal migrants--China.
- Internal migrants.
- Social change--China.
- Social change.
- China.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Wheeling, Illinois : Film Ideas, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In Chinese with subtitles in English; title screen in English.
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio) presentation.
- digital optical
- widescreen (1.78:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD-R video file region 1
- Summary:
- "Yumen has been the first Chinese town where searchers found an oil field. At that time the town was destined to be an example for small rural Chinese villages. The government invested so much to realize the Chinese dream: a very active active economy bringing its inhabitants richness. But soon resources run out and big oil companies abandon the town, leaving behind empty buildings and unemployment for all the immigrants who came looking for a job. Fifty years later, the town is unrecognizable, unemployed people left the town to go live and work somewhere else ... The only people who live in there are elderly and sick. They are resigned to die in this place, forgotten by their family."--Container.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture (produced in 2017?).
- OCLC:
- 1031034385
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