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Up the Yangtze

Sep 30, 2007 | IMDB 7.3

93 min Watch Now

Documentary

At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.

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Campbell Ping He, Jerry Bo Yu Chen, Cindy Shui Yu, Yung Chang

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