BBC The Mekong River With Sue Perkins 4 of 4 2014.nfo
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Type.................: TV Series
Part Size............: 50,000,000
Number of Parts......: 15
Compression Format...: RAR
File Validation......: PAR2/SFV
Number of PAR2 files.: 7
SFV Files............: 1
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Posted by............: johncymru
Posted to............: alt.binaries.documentaries
Posted on............: 20141130
Original Air Date....: 20141130
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04tp74d
In this fourth and final episode, Sue reaches her final destination - China,
home to the source of the Mekong. Here, change is sweeping through faster than
any other Mekong nation, as China's economic miracle transforms even the
remotest regions.
Arriving in Yunnan's tropical south western region of Xishuangbanna, Sue
discovers how this once remote and sleepy region is now home to a booming
tourist industry, with the indigenous Dai tribe at its heart. To the Dai, water
is holy, the physical and spiritual source of life. Thousands of Han Chinese -
who make up 92% of China's population - flock to the Dai Minority Park, a
Disneyfied version of an ancient Dai village, where they take part in a
traditional water splashing ceremony. After decades of communism, the park
represents China's renewed interest in the colourful melting pot of peoples
that actually make up modern China, providing a must-see holiday destination
for its burgeoning middle class.
Leaving the Dai Park, Sue climbs higher into the foothills of Xishuangbanna to
discover how the Aini tribe are adapting to a changing China. The Aini have
farmed Pu'er tea for two thousand years; suddenly they can become rich from its
harvest, as China's newly wealthy professionals buy up this now fashionable
delicacy.
But as China tries to work out what is significant from its past and what it
should take into its future, some people feel this rush to modernity is
threatening what little remains of ancient traditions and beliefs. Sue meets Li
Jin Mei, who is desperately trying to preserve what is left of her Aini
culture.
Travelling further along the river's valleys and foothills, Sue reaches the
town of Baisha under the shadow of the Himalayas. Home to the Naxi people, this
region is famous for its botanists and herbalists, made popular by Victorian
plant hunters such as Joseph Rock. Sue attends a consultation with the renowned
Naxi Chinese herbalist Dr Ho and explores his magnificent herbal garden.
Climbing higher and ever closer to the source, Sue encounters her first taste
of Tibetan life in the village of Cizhong. French missionaries came here in
1850, bringing the Catholic gospel and converting, over time, 80% of this
village to Catholicism. Sue meets Mr Xiao Jie Yi, whose humbling story relates
how his Catholic faith carried him through thirty years of hard labour during
Mao's Cultural Revolution.
In modern China, Cizhong is facing a new, even more dramatic change - a
hydroelectric dam is being built close by, bringing with it construction along
the river's banks, landslides and the prospect of flooding. Six mega dams are
already in service on the Mekong in Yunnan, generating the equivalent of enough
electricity to light up London for three years. But the human and ecological
cost here and downstream is yet to be calculated - already more than 100,000
ethnic people were displaced to make way for the dams.
Finally, after nearly 3,000 miles, Sue embarks on the last leg of her epic
journey, arriving high up on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai province, close to
the source of the Mekong. In a life-changing experience, she is immersed in the
lives of a family of Tibetan yak herders, and joins a group of nuns as they
make an offering to the water gods for their protection. Here, at the point
where the Mekong's waters first filter into the lives of people, Sue reveals
the eternal bond between humans, gods and this mighty river.
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