China - from Cartier to Confucius - VPRO documentary - 2012
140Now when buildings seem to rise high into the Shanghai sky, colliers by Cartier are big business and the BMW’s are queuing on Beijing highways, a new generation rises who dares to ask the question: Is this all there is? At Chinese universities, students are in urgent search for answers to the market-fundamentalist values the dragon is embracing. Through the work of Confucius and Socrates this new generation of neocon nationalist are rediscovering values that seemed to be buried during the Cultural Revolution and state-capitalism of China’s present rulers.
Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2012.
© VPRO Backlight October 2012
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Credits:
Director: Marije Meerman
Research & interviews: Ying Zhu
Camera and editor: Maasja Ooms
Sound: Rik Meier
Colourist: Martijn de Haas
Re-recording mixer: Mark Meewis
Music: Michel Banabila
Co-producer: Ying Zhu
Producer: Mariska Schneider
Commissioning editors: Henneke Hagen, Jos de Putter, Frank Wiering
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.