Colors of China 中国

A fascinating documentary, in English. Discover how this place embodied the quintessential Chinese garden arts, and how it came to be destroyed ...

A liitle jet-lagged, our travelers spend a day in Beijing before setting off for other parts of China. Places visited : Tian'AnMen Square, the Forbidden City (Palace Museum) plus JingShan and BeiHai parks, all within easy walking distance of each other. Then it is on to DeShengMen to take the bus to BaDaLing Great Wall of China (one can also take a train from Beijing North railway station, near XiZhiMen). Welcome to the blue sky city ...

HangZhou, in ZheJiang province, south from ShangHai ...

With Daniel Dumbrill and The New Atlas ... Bonus film - Uighur separatists funded by the US - with the Moderate Rebels ... Bonus film 2 - Chris Hedges discusses the work of political philosopher Sheldon Wolin with Professor Wendy Brown ...

From deep in the archives (circa 2000), the original Vietnamese girl super group ...

A beautiful film that takes you to all the places along the river ... YángZǐ Jiāng (modern PinYin), also known in China as Cháng Jiāng (literally, 'Long River'), is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world. It flows for 6,300 kilometers (4,000 miles) from the glaciers on the QingHai-Tibet Plateau in QingHai province eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. The Three Gorges Dam on the river is the largest hydro-electric power station in the world.

BaMei village ...

And JingShan Park. Filmed in early summer, 2012.

With Chinese Street View ...

Relaxing With Chinese Bamboo Flute, Guzheng, Erhu - hours of great music ...

Provincial capital of FuJian ... Bonus film - fast forward FuJian province ...