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The Poor in China on River Without a Paddle in Documentary ‘Up the Yangtze’

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on June 22, 2008 - 9:48pm.

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CHICAGO – China is on the world’s mind. The once-mysterious communist “enemy” is now the economic friend of all the essential profiteers.

There’s a defining joke told in the new documentary “Up the Yangtze” about American and Chinese businessmen going traveling on a river. They come to a fork in the journey with the signs “socialist” and “capitalist” illustrating the next turn.

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