''China Blue'' is a 2005

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directed by Micha Peled. It follows the life of Jasmine Li, a young seventeen-year-old worker from

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province, in a

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factory, ''Lifeng Clothes Factory'' (丽锋服饰制衣有限公司) in Shaxi, Guangdong producing Vigaze Jeans (a company based in

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), hence the title. Jasmine earned about half a yuan for one hour's work (which amounted to about six US cents).China Blue film
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website The documentary discusses both the

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conditions in factories in China and the growing importance of China as an

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ing country on a global scale. It's part of Teddy Bear Films' ''Globalization Trilogy'' together with '' Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town'', that focuses on consumerism in the U.S., and ''Bitter Seeds'', that looks at the raw materials – the crisis of the farmers in India who are growing the cotton exported to China's garment factories to be used for the clothes sold in the West. At the 2005 Amnesty International film festival, it won the Amnesty International-DOEN Award. In April 2007 ''China Blue'' aired on the award-winning PBS series ''

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External links

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