Message from Clay Dube

[clay dube]

We screened this film years ago with the director, Micha Peled.

The link above is to a low resolution version. Higher resolution versions are available, including with Spanish subtitles. The dvd, of course, is best. This is an excellent film, made in 2005. Pay particular attention to the negotiations between the foreign buyer and the factory head.

Here is the PBS website for the film: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chinablue/film.html

Another resource for those interested in what cheap products "cost" is The China Price by Alexandra Harney. Here she speaks at Michigan about her work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mk1OEuOYxY. Another film that is useful in looking at the links between what we buy and how that stuff gets made is Xmas without China by a couple of USC grads: http://www.xmaswithoutchina.com/. Some of the human cost of the migration that powered China's economic rise is shown in Last Train Home (another film we screened at USC with the director): http://www.pbs.org/pov/lasttrainhome/