China yellow, China blue Chine jaune-Chine bleue

Lallem, Ahmed. (Added Author). Meurice, Jean-Michel. (Added Author). Société nationale de programme France-Régions. (Added Author). Point du Jour (Firm) (Added Author). Centre national de la cinématographie (France) (Added Author). First Run/Icarus Films (Added Author).

Summary: The film "uses visual documents to portray the struggle and changeover between the two Chinas: one continental and rural, enshrined by the Empire and Confucianism; the other coastal, urban and mercantile, and founded on maritime trade."--Container.

Record details

Physical Description: videorecording (DVD)]
videocassette
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: [English version]
Publisher: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally produced for French television in 1997. [2 episodes] "Dans la collection "Histoires d'Actualité", conçue et dirigée par Jean-Michel Meurice"--Credits. Originally published as two videocassettes, one per episode, [ca. 56 min. each] with unique titles for each cassette. The individual episodes have been transferred to one dvd. Credits are shown at the end of each episode, but the unique titles for each episode have not been retained in the dvd. DVD-R format. No scene indexing. No "skip" segments.
Formatted Contents Note:	[Pt. 1.] Yellow [The time of troubles] -- [pt. 2.] Blue [The People's Republic of China.]
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Editor, Cécile Lecante ; original music, Gérard Cohen-Tannugi.
Language Note:	Commentary in English; title and credits are in French.