Along the Banks of the Yangtze — Season 1, Episode 2: Double Happiness
Documentary • 44 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 8.2/10
Episode synopsis
Love and happiness are not left to chance in China. In fact: it is considered a serious problem if a person has not settled down by the age of 30. But how do Chinese men and women find each other? Many highly educated women remain single because it is not common for a man to marry someone of his own class and educational level. And even more worrisome is the fact that, for that same reason, millions of poorly educated men will never have a family of their own. No wonder that there is a bridge in Nanjing across the Yangtze that is notorious for having seen the largest number of suicides in the world. Ruben witnesses a hilarious marriage proposal and takes a flirting course for underprivileged geeks.
About Along the Banks of the Yangtze
A six-part series in which photographer Ruben Terlou travels from Shanghai, the most westernized part of China, to the much more traditional Tibetan city of Shangri-La. Through the stories of people he meets along the 6,300-kilometre river, Ruben discovers the real China, forty years after Mao’s death.