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The paper provides a summary and analysis of the PBS film "The Great Wall of the Yangtze" that is about the Three Gorges Dam being built in China. The paper examines how the film presents both the pros and cons of building this huge project and includes comments on the government's incentives for building the dam. The paper highlights how the dam was built without regard to people's lives or the environmental impact.

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"In 1994, the Communist government in China began construction of what, upon completion, will be the largest dam in the world. It will forever change the third longest river in the world, the Yangtze. Gaining permission to travel, conduct interviews and shoot footage of controversial topics in China is extremely difficult. The filmmaker Ellen Perry shot much of this PBS documentary without such authorization. Americans don't always appreciate the differences between life in America and life in China. In China subservience to the government is expected,..."

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