# China Blue

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{{Infobox film
| name           = China Blue
 
| image	=	China Blue FilmPoster.jpeg
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| director       =
 Micha X. Peled
| producer       = Micha X. Peled
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| cinematography = Micha X. Peled
| editing        = Manuel Tsingaris
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| released       = {{Film date|2005}}
| runtime        = 86 minutes
| country        = United States
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'''''China Blue''''' is a 2005 [documentary film](/source/documentary_film) directed by [Micha Peled](/source/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](/source/Sichuan), in a Chinese [jeans](/source/jeans) factory, Lifeng Clothes Factory (丽锋服饰制衣有限公司) in [Shaxi, Guangdong](/source/Shaxi%2C_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](/source/Istanbul), [Turkey](/source/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](/source/Chinese_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](/source/Independent_Lens) website</ref>

The documentary discusses the [sweatshop](/source/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](/source/Store_Wars%3A_When_Wal-Mart_Comes_to_Town)'', that focuses on [consumerism](/source/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](/source/2005_Amnesty_International_film_festival), it won the [Amnesty International-DOEN Award](/source/Amnesty_International-DOEN_Award). In April 2007, ''China Blue'' aired on the award-winning PBS series ''[Independent Lens](/source/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](/source/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 ==
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==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](/source/Independent_Lens) on [PBS](/source/Public_Broadcasting_Service) 
*[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](/source/KPFA) ([Pacifica Radio](/source/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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