Waking the Green Tiger (selected excerpts)

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Where time is short: this 18-minute compilation focusses on a key meeting between activists and farmers at Tianba village near the ManwanDam on the Lancang (Mekong) River in southwestern China.

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Waking the Green Tiger (selected excerpts)

Description of excerpt
Farmers who were displaced by the construction of the Manwan dam in the 1980s were promised new land that never materialized, leaving them nearly destitute. Filmmaker Shi Lihong records their story for a short documentary titled Voice of an Angry River. The film, when circulated among communities on the upper Yangtze river, galvanizes opposition to a new dam to be built at Tiger Leaping Gorge.

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Awards

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Distributor credits

Producer: Betsy Carson and Gary Marcuse

Director: Gary Marcuse

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Docuseek subjects

Environmental Justice
Asian Studies
History
Anthropology and Archaeology
Politics and Political Science
Geography
Water
Rivers and Lakes
Asia
Energy
Government Policy
Communication and Media Studies
Journalism and the Press
Agriculture and Food
Manufacturing
Citizenship, Social Movements and Activism
Human Rights
Farming
Food
Global / International Studies
Film and Video Studies
Indigenous Studies
Biodiversity
Hydroelectric
Environmentalists
Habitat Destruction
Pollution
Resource Planning and Management
Ethics
Ecology
East Asia

Distributor subjects

Activism
Animals and Animal Rights
Asian Studies
Biodiversity
China
Communication and Media Studies
Conflict Resolution
Democracy
Economics
ecosystem restoration
Ecosystems
Environmental Anthropology
Environmental Geography
Environmental History
Environmental Justice
Environmental Law
Ethics
Farming
Film and Video Studies
Food
Forestry
Forests
Gender Studies
Grasslands and Prairies
Habitat Loss
History
Human Rights
Human Rights Law
Indigenous Studies
Journalism
Manufacturing
Political Ecology
Pollution
Public Health
Religion
Revolution
Rivers
Solutions
Sustainability
Water
Wetlands
Gender
Women

Keywords

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