May 2000Economic
liberalisation in China has
brought an ancient and
sinister trade back to life --
the kidnapping of women for
sale as wives for lonely men.
With remarkable access on an
issue still classified by the
government as 'sensitive',
Martin Adler follows a private
detective, Zhu Wenguang -- one
of China's new breed o
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May 2000Economic
liberalisation in China has
brought an ancient and
sinister trade back to life --
the kidnapping of women for
sale as wives for lonely men.
With remarkable access on an
issue still classified by the
government as 'sensitive',
Martin Adler follows a private
detective, Zhu Wenguang -- one
of China's new breed of
entrepreneurs - on the trail
of his wives and daughters
who've been abducted and sold.
His investigation takes us
thousands of miles to remote
Inner Mongolia - only to find
that, despite a government
campaign to stamp out the
trade, the local police refuse
to rescue an abducted woman. A
remarkable and beautiful film
about an ancient practice
abolished by communists,
that's now coming back to
haunt new China.

Category Film & Animation

Tags China, kidnapped, wives, communism, economic, liberalisation, ancient, sinister, trade