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Beijing Besieged by Waste

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Part of the documentary film series
Visions of a New China

Beijing Besieged by Waste 垃圾围城
Dir. WANG Jiuliang 王久良
2011. China. 72 min. Digibeta. English subtitles.


With a population of about 20 million, the growing city of Beijing produces 30,000 tons of waste each day. Photographer/filmmaker Wang Jiuliang traveled around the city and visited 460 legal and illegal landfills from 2008 to 2010 to document the collection of garbage and excrement, the environmental calamity and the life cycles around these landfills, which include scavengers building a precarious livelihood, green spaces forming on top of waste, and livestock being fed trash. An informative and alarming portrait of urban ecology, the film has earned keen Chinese media coverage and the attention of government officials.

Watch an interview with the filmmaker about this film:


WANG Jiuliang was born in Anqiu, Shandong Province in 1976. He is a graduate of the Cinema-Television School at Communication University of China. Wang is also a photographer. Beijing Besieged by Waste accompanies a larger photography project.

The Visions of a New China film series is supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations. Additional support is provided by the Center on U.S.-China Relations and New York State Council on the Arts.

Event Details

Sat 29 Oct 2011
3 - 4:20 p.m.

725 Park Avenue, New York, NY

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Online and phone ticketing for this program is now closed. Tickets are available for walk-in purchase. $7 members; $9 students/seniors; $11 nonmembers.
20111029T150000 20111029T162000 America/New_York Asia Society: Beijing Besieged by Waste On screen: the collection of garbage and excrement, the environmental calamity and the life cycles around landfills surrounding Beijing.

For event details visit https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/beijing-besieged-waste
725 Park Avenue, New York, NY

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