China: Between Clouds and Dreams
Docuseries
5 episodes · premiered Nov 5, 2016
Documentary series exploring the everyday lives of people throughout China, combining personal stories and natural history to create a rarely seen portrait of what life is really like in the world's most populous nation.
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E1 A Letter From Russia
Four children investigate the spoon-billed sandpiper's fragile existence. In Tibet, a trainee monk teaches environmental husbandry to nomads. A young girl fights to overcome her deafness.
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E2 Local Heroes
A young monk learns that a new dam threatens the snow leopard's habitat. Four children investigate a mystery illness in their town. A mother stands up to a factory that she believes is causing cancer.
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E3 From Death Comes Life
Novice monk Gama discovers that a huge open cast mine threatens to contaminate the Yellow River. Courageous young mum Ms Wu finds out that a factory has been releasing poisonous hydrogen cyanide.
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E4 Silent Spring
Novice monk Gama makes it across the plateau to the largest Tibetan monastery in the world. The four young journalists involve schools across Asia in their quest to save the spoon-billed sandpiper.
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E5 For a Better Future
Gama begins his studies at a breathtakingly beautiful monastery. Reporter Xu comes under attack for his battle against electro fishing. And have the young journalists won the competition they entered?