{{Other uses|Han purple and Han blue}} {{Primary sources|date=August 2021}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox film | name = China Blue | image = China Blue FilmPoster.jpeg | alt = | caption = | director = Micha X. Peled | producer = Micha X. Peled | writer = | screenplay = | story = | narrator = | starring = | music = | cinematography = Micha X. Peled | editing = Manuel Tsingaris | studio = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|2005}} | runtime = 86 minutes | country = United States | language = | budget = | gross = }} '''''China Blue''''' is a 2005 documentary film directed by Micha Peled.<ref>[http://www.teddybearfilms.com/about About Teddy Bear Films]</ref> It follows the life of Jasmine Li, a seventeen-year-old worker from Sichuan, in a Chinese jeans factory, Lifeng Clothes Factory (丽锋服饰制衣有限公司) in Shaxi, Guangdong<ref>Lifeng Clothes Company: * [https://web.archive.org/web/20030205094846/http://www.lifeng-cn.com/ Lifeng Factory] {{in lang|en}} (archived copy 2003) * {{in lang|en}} (archived copy 2007)</ref> producing Vigaze Jeans (a company based in Istanbul, Turkey<ref>[http://www.vigazejeans.com/ Vigaze Jeans website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527230715/http://www.vigazejeans.com/ |date=May 27, 2010 }}</ref>), hence the title. Jasmine earned about half a yuan for one hour's work (which amounted to about six US cents).<ref>[https://archive.today/20120912194735/http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chinablue/film.html China Blue film] – Independent Lens website</ref>
The documentary discusses the sweatshop conditions in factories in China and China's growing importance as a global exporting country. 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 ''Independent Lens''.
The Vigaze Jeans Company went out of business sometime around December 2011 and January 2012 according to the last archived version of their website on Wayback Machine.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.vigazejeans.com/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224180719/http://www.vigazejeans.com/ | archive-date=2011-12-24 | title=Vigaze Jeans }}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://teddybearfilms.fatcow.com/2011/09/01/china-blue/ Official website for China Blue] *[https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/chinablue/ ''Blue''] webpage for Independent Lens on PBS *[https://kpfa.org/episode/6215/ Audio interview of filmmaker Micha Peled] with [http://www.againstthegrain.org/cssoong.htm C.S. Soong], host of ''[http://www.againstthegrain.org Against the Grain]'' on KPFA (Pacifica Radio), August 7, 2007 *{{IMDb title|0478116|China Blue}}
Category:American documentary films Category:Documentary films about globalization Category:Documentary films about business Category:Documentary films about China Category:2005 films Category:2005 documentary films Category:2005 American films Category:Jeans
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